by InTrieste
A new outdoor photographic installation opening on December 9, 2025, explores the lives of women who have settled in the Goriška and Friuli Venezia Giulia regions, offering a quiet but pointed look at identity, belonging and the evolving social fabric along this cross-border area.
“Invisible Women,” part of the official program of GO! 2025 — the European Capital of Culture shared by Nova Gorica and Gorizia — will be unveiled at 6 p.m. at the Communication Office on Delpinova 20. The exhibition brings together the work of photographers Erin McKinney and Dominique Pozzo, under the curatorship of the noted documentary photographer Monika Bulaj.
Displayed throughout public space, the images focus on women whose stories often unfold out of public view: newcomers from around the world who have made this historically layered region their home. The portraits and scenes they inhabit highlight both the cultural diversity they contribute and the challenges they navigate as they build their lives in a borderland shaped by movement and transition.
Rather than offering a single narrative, the exhibition presents a mosaic of experiences — moments of everyday resilience, adaptation and community formation. The photographs, at times intimate and at other times observational, aim to expand the conversation around who is seen, who is heard and how identity is expressed in places undergoing continual change.
“Invisible Women” forms part of a broader GO! 2025 effort to use public art as a lens on contemporary life in this binational region, where shifting borders and multilingual communities remain central to its character.
