This panel brings together artists who explore belonging as something built through relationships between women. Across family archives, sisterhood, collective care, ritual, and acts of self-representation, these projects show how identity and belonging are shaped through shared experience rather than fixed definitions.
Dreaming here is not an abstract or individual act. It emerges through connection, solidarity, and transmission. Dress, embroidery, memory, and everyday gestures become ways of carrying culture forward, negotiating visibility, and reclaiming authorship. Together, these works reflect on sisterhood as a generative force through which women imagine, preserve, and transform cultural lineages.
Ana is a Peruvian-Swiss photographer based in London. Born in Cusco and raised in Geneva, her work sits at the intersection of fashion and documentary, using image-making as a tool to navigate identity, memory, and heritage. Her visual language blends surrealism with grounded intimacy, often through natural light, lived-in environments, and collaborative set design.
Angela Cappetta is a three-time MacDowell Fellow, an American Academy in Rome Visiting Artist, and NYFA Fellow. Her work is collected internationally by major museums and private collectors. She has been profiled widely in esteemed publications such as The New Yorker, Blind, W Magazine and Dazed. Her first monograph, published by L’Artiere Edizione, was shortlisted for the prestigious Arles Prix du Livres. Her work and book has been acquired by the MoMA Library, the Victoria and Albert Museum, The National Library (England) and the NYPL Picture Collection. Being a documentary-style photographer means access to a new, parallel universe every day. An invitation to photograph someone’s life is a privilege.
Ayomide Tejuoso (Plantation) is a Nigerian-British artist based in London, Geneva, and Lagos. Her multidisciplinary work spans text, photography, video, and installation, expanding the Black disposition. Through research and literary production, she explores Black womanhood and diasporic visual worlds.
Brutus Labiche is a Swiss-Rwandan artist who weaves myth, memory, and materiality into a powerful and distinctive visual language.
Drawing from personal experience, fashion, and folklore, she creates a visual universe that moves between performance, sculpture, painting, and installation. Materials such as clay, wax, artificial hair, and textiles become carriers of memory, identity, and belonging. Her workk has been shown at Circuit Lausanne, the Musée Ethnographique de Genève, Espace Topic, Forde Geneva, 198 Contemporary London, ICA London, Photo Schweiz Zurich.
Delali Ayivi is a Togolese-German photographer whose work combines photography, research, and community collaboration to explore identity, migration, and collective imagination. Born in Baltimore and raised between Germany, Malawi, and Togo, she studied at the University of the Arts London. Influenced by her great-great-grandfather Alex A. Acolatse, Ayivi’s practice centers dialogue and shared authorship. She co-founded a long-term project in Lomé, exhibited internationally, and has received the Foam Talent Prize. Her work appears in Vogue, Dazed, and Boy.Brother.Friend, and she has been recognized by the British Fashion Council, Dazed 100, and Forbes 30 Under 30.
Raajadharshini is an image-maker whose work blends documentary, portraiture, and fashion to explore identity, community, and underrepresented narratives. Rooted in her Tamil heritage, she creates emotionally resonant imagery that challenges dominant visual cultures and reclaims fashion as a shared, inclusive space.
Rehab Eldalil is a Cairo-based documentary photographer, visual storyteller, and educator whose work explores identity through participatory and collaborative practices. Working across personal projects, NGO collaborations, and publications, she focuses on human and environmental stories in the SWANA region. Grounded in ethics and co-authorship, her practice challenges colonial and exoticizing narratives by positioning subjects as protagonists. Eldalil is a World Press Photo winner and has been widely exhibited and published internationally.
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“I am a journalist and author based in Paris. Head of the fashion section of marieclaire.fr for more than five years (2018-2024), I now write for Harper s Bazaar France, Mixte Magazine, ODDA Magazine, Athletica Stylist, etc. For ten years, my work has explored the impact of clothing on our societies and our identities through politics, society, questions of gender, "race," and eco-responsibility. In May 2022, I published La Mode est Politique, a book in the form of a 27-word lexicon that explores the links between women, clothes, and power.
I have also been teaching Fashion Studies for five years. At the Institut Français de la Mode (IFM), I co-created the "Fashion News" course, which studied fashion through the prism of its current events. Topics such as gender, sustainability, diversity, inclusion, influence, and technological advancements were discussed. Since 2022, I have taught the Fashion Criticism course at Parsons Paris, addressing the new currents of criticism across the industry. In addition to this course, I have intervened in certain schools like the summer university of the IFM, the HEAD Geneva, and the summer university of Oxbridge.
I also lead discussions on inclusive fashion, sustainability, pop culture, feminism, and literature at round tables, conferences, and symposiums for brands, cultural institutions, associations, and festivals.”
