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Giving Heartbeat to Data: Central Asian Female Artists Challenge Silence Through Art

By Ayana Birbayeva on 12 December 2025

Data often sounds distant and pale until it touches your background. Standing in front of installations built from statistics on femicide, violence, unequal pay, and education gaps, I felt something I hadn’t named aloud before. The exhibition “Tirek — The Thread of Her Life,” organized within the UN Women...