Hangar Gallery presents When the Earth Still Had a Feminine Name by Iranian artist Maryam Firuzi
Hangar Gallery presents When the Earth Still Had a Feminine Name by Iranian artist Maryam Firuzi.
For years, Maryam Firuzi focused her lens on urban women, while the deeper roots of her homeland existed for her only in books and stories – until she began her journeys. Travelling 60,000 km through mountains and across salt deserts, and also into dense forests, she felt the living pulse of their 7,000-year-old civilization.
The exhibition brings together several photographic series that emerged from these travels, each reflecting the close connection of Iranian women with creation. Through Scattered Memories of a Distorted Future, painter-artists breathed new life into forgotten places she discovered, inhabiting them with their works. In the Shadow of the Silent Women focuses on communities of women who watch over the cultural and artistic heritage of their civilization, protecting and passing it on. And in the series Women in the Mirror Baluchi women “sewed” their presence into landscapes that had rendered them invisible, transforming erasure into existence through embroidery.
Carried by many women Maryam Firuzi has known throughout her life, the name « Iran » means « the land of the free people ». Growing up in and nourished by Persian poetry and mythology, Maryam Firuzi always imagined Iran as « a woman riding a horse, her long hair flowing in the wind as she scattered beauty and freedom across the land like seeds.» Now, she realizes how deeply this childhood vision has shaped her artistic view.
Maryam Firuzi
When the Earth Still Had a Feminine Name
19.09.2025 > 02.11.2025
Press preview: 17 September at 2pm - In the presence of Maryam Firuzi
Opening: 18 September from 5:30pm to 8:30pm - In the presence of Maryam Firuzi
Opening to the public as of 19 September
Hangar Gallery, Brussels
Place du Châtelain 18 Kasteleinplein
1050 Brussels
About Maryam Firuzi
Maryam Firuzi holds a Master in Film Studies from the Art University of Tehran (2016). She works across photography and cinema. Her short films received awards, including Best Short Film at the Mediterranean Film Festival in Cannes for The provisional Death of Bees (2017).
Her works have been exhibited at Paris Photo (2021, 2022) and at La Gacilly Photo Festival (2022). She received the Peace Medal of the Global Peace photo Award (2018 & 2022), the International Women In Photo Association Award (2022) and People Photographer of the year from the IPA (2024).
Selection of Images
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