"Historically there has been a sharp gendered division in the access to public spaces in Uzbekistan."
Artist: Zumrad Mirzalieva
Project: Sartaroshxona
"Traditionally, in this gender-segregated society, public space which are inherently associated with politics and power are reserved for men, while women are largely limited to be within their private realm, such as her house or her neighbourhood, feeding into the gender stratification in the region. I started my on-going project Sartaroshxona (translated from English as barbershop) in 2021 with the aim to firstly allow myself into the male-only spaces that are traditionally unavailable to women and explore whether the cultural dynamics in Sartaroshxona’s are similar to those in female-only beauty parlours in order to challenge the existing gender dichotomy."
© Zumrad Mirzalieva
Editor : Ecaterina Rusu