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Through powerful and sensitive images, weaving together heritage, resilience, and transformation, Nadia Ferroukhi invites you to look differently at women’s place and the possible balances within our societies.
At the Éphémère Galerie of Comptoir des Voyages and on the railings of rue Saint-Victor in Paris, discover Les Matriarches, the exhibition by nomadic photographer Nadia Ferroukhi. Fascinated by so-called “matriarchal” organizations, based on the complementarity of roles, she has met seventeen communities over the past twenty years. This photography exhibition highlights societies where women hold an essential place in collective harmony. Since the 19th century, women have won fundamental rights, while some, explorers or rebels, were already defying norms. Their legacy has guided Nadia Ferroukhi’s work: here, women transmit, organize, and regulate, without excluding men. Far from an inverted model, these societies offer other forms of balance. Documenting these realities, sometimes fragile or changing, means preserving the memory of women who reinvent their place in the world every day. Nadia Ferroukhi, born to a Czech mother and an Algerian father, grew up with a nomadic spirit. She travels the world, attentive to the human realities she encounters. Her images, published in the international press and presented at events such as Visa pour l’Image and Festival Photo La Gacilly, reveal the women and men who shape the world. For more than twenty years, she has pursued long-term work with communities of women, collecting their singular stories. Her projects Les Matriarches and Nouvelles Matriarches are part of this approach, inspired by the spirit of 19th-century women explorers. nadia-ferroukhi.com We welcome you to the Éphémère Galerie at 12 rue Saint-Victor, Paris 5 ème, during the following hours: Opening reception on Thursday, June 4, from 6 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. From Friday, June 5, to Friday, June 12, from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Saturdays, June 6 and 13, from 12 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Closed on Sunday
Source: paris.fr — photo: Nadia Ferroukhi