Painting Resistance: Bodies, Movement and Collective Action

Painting Resistance explores feminist body politics in a shared, performative space. Rooted in the idea of the body as both a site of memory and a tool of protest, the workshop invites participants to reflect on how our bodies are shaped by social, political, and gendered experiences, and how they can also become powerful instruments of resistance, expression, and solidarity.

Throughout the session, facilitated by Veronica Revuelta at La Kinesfera, Cadiz (Spain), participants will engage in embodied practices that draw from improvisation, gesture, and emotional response. Using textiles, brushes, and their own hands, participants will co-create a large-scale fabric flag through collective movement and abstract painting. This collaborative act is both intimate and public, a weaving of bodies and voices into a shared visual language. The resulting work will become part of the exhibition Hosiery Snip Space to a Triangular Racing Lace, curated by Veronica Revuelta and set to launch on July 2025, as a living testimony of the workshop—documenting not only the final image, but also the process, the dialogue, and the temporary community formed through artistic action.

By making visible the traces of our gestures and our presence, Painting Resistance offers space to rethink the political potential of art, the body, and the act of coming together.

Photographs by Jose Antonio Tomas