Pakistan & Norway

Khadija imagines a world where women and their children can move through Karachi without fear. Yachi answers with a fish cycling past the Oslo Opera House: a dream of living in love rather than fear.

Two women inhabit a space of mutual understanding. Farazeh paints a quiet recognition of their shared struggles; Kari Anne looks towards a future in which women can speak and live without judgement.

Monica paints a strong woman who dares to speak her mind. Mahwish surrounds her with goldfish and lotus flowers, creating a surreal world of calm, possibility and self-renewal.

For Anna, feminism begins with humanity, bodily autonomy and sisterhood. Fakhra adds supporting hands around a woman whose own hair obscures her eyes: support offered, and the choice of which hand to hold.

Marit speaks through art of solidarity, equal opportunities and women's lives. Haia's poem describes women tied to strings, their movements directed by hands that take what does not belong to them.

Lene Merete leaves a question open: does the lamb in the woman's arms represent care or sacrifice? Amra reflects on the gender roles imposed on us, rather than chosen, and the tensions they create.

Cathrine builds delicate layers of organic forms, a butterfly filled with leaves. Sana asks us to look beyond the surface of a woman's life: beyond perceived fragility, towards the strength and love beneath it.

Summaiya celebrates an international artistic exchange envisioned by a woman, for women. Fru Bugge offers a direct invitation: ‘Be the woman you like to be.’

Trudy's green and gold palette honours freedom of expression and the women who fought for it. Scheherezade adds a bare back held safely within the composition, and two supporting hands reaching towards one another across continents.

Mia paints a woman searching for her identity amid the demands of society. Sarwat gives the figure a face, adding an older woman placing flowers in a younger woman's hair: one generation uplifting another.

Ragnhild's kneeling figure holds both strength and vulnerability. Sameen transforms a vegetable shredder into a bed, bringing the sculpture into her exploration of home, the body and the traumas carried within domestic life.