Open Daily 4:00 pm –8:00 pm
PHOTO EXHIBITION of NORMA SFEIR at Stegi VITSENTZOS KORNAROS (97 V. Kornarou st. Sitia)
«Reflets d΄âme Portraits de Femmes»
Reflections of Souls – Portraits of Women.
Exhibition duration: July 5–15, 2025 Visiting hours: Daily, 19:00–21:00 Opening: July 7, 2025 / 20:00
In this series, photographer Norma Sfeir captures moments of truth with women she has encountered over the years. Her gaze reveals their strength, their radiance, and their fragility. Each portrait becomes an intimate echo, a shared story, a mirrored encounter. The exhibition weaves a sensitive link between the artist and her models, in a silent but powerful sisterhood. Shadows, light, nature and symbols intertwine to celebrate the authentic and political beauty of femininity. The works, on paper or burlap, combine pure photography and photomontage in the service of embodied poetry.
Norma Faustine Sfeir is a photographer and director. After studying anthropology at the Sorbonne, she trained in theatre with Strasberg and in photography at the Parsons School in Paris. She travelled the world — South America, India, the Philippines, Indonesia, Egypt — to capture the depth of life in her documentary reports. Among her films, Bali Tropiques (1981), acquired by the CNC, was shown in Parisian libraries and on Canal+. Un Instant avec les Mobiles de Calder (1983), featuring Japanese dancer Shiro Daïmon, was acquired for 30 years by the Vidéothèque de Paris. Her photography exhibitions, in Paris in 1985 and then in Beirut and Tripoli in 1998, bear witness to her artistic journey. As the author of Féminin Majeur, she sensitively reveals the unique aura of her female models, often in intimate communion, “I recognise myself in them”. Driven by a spirit of defiance, she blends emotions, bodies and culture in her work. By founding the AWLAD association, she supports children’s emotional intelligence, convinced of the importance of artistic expression. Her open-mindedness, steeped in a pluralistic culture, captures her model in a new light, with a deeply human gaze, free of all judgement.