The curstorial day will be in English

MIT Space presents the exhibition on(n)a. Woman as Symbol dedicated to the ways a female figure becomes a medium of visual language across various cultural and historical contexts. The project brings together representations of women in 17th–20th century Japanese woodblock prints by Katsushika Hokusai, Utagawa Hiroshige, Kitagawa Utamaro, and Tsukioka Yoshitoshi, as well as contemporary graphic art by Belarusian artists Lena Hil and Maxim Shumilin. The exhibition demonstrates the persistence of visual systems shaping perception and artistic language.
The project explores an image of s woman as a stable visual construct in which individuality yields to symbol, formula, and sign. By correlating the ukiyo-e tradition with contemporary graphic art, it is shown how a female figure of different eras and contexts becomes a focal point of visual language where art tests the limits of the visible, the permissible, and the imaginable.
On this day, the curator will lead a guided author’s tour of the exhibition, offering insight into the concept of the project, the featured artists, and the hidden symbols embedded in their works. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions and engage in a live dialogue, discussing the key themes of the exhibition together.