Lola Gonzalez Studio                            

Initially coming from the dance field, Lola would describe herself as an interdisciplinary artist/designer. By combining, psychosomatics, technology and body movements she sees her work as tools to access our deepest and authentic selves. 
Through sensory, experiential and interactive work, she is particularly interested in exploring collective energy within the landscape of contemporary society, body memory, its body expression through movements as means of internal healing and understanding our own personal stories and heritage.

She completed her BA in the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2023, for which she received a Cum Laude. She has also obtained a diploma as a specialist in psychosomatic therapy and is currently exploring technology as a tool for interpreting movements from the body as symbolic embodiment.

She believes that the body holds our unconscious memories and that our movements can serve as a tool for accessing them. By becoming aware of these memories and listening to our movements, we could potentially break free from their negative influences and gain insight into our own behaviours, potentially helping prevent or fight disease.


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05 THE MODULAR REFLEXOLOGY BASED CARPET


 



YEAR:     2022
LOCATION: Design Academy Eindhoven/ Milan

CREDITS: A big thank you to the participants who are the main actors of this research.  

Maya, Emilie, Sarah and Agathe.
The reflexology based carpet is a body memory awakening tool.
It is a modular carpet based on 15 Chinese pressure points as a therapeutic/medical tool for body movement exploration and comprehension.
It serves as a tool to trigger movement, tension release, emotion and memory while being guided through a body movement session.


It all started by the observation that I could remember and connect to my own body memory by moving onto different grounds and textures. Indeed, while thinking at a body movement workshop I realised that the scenography of it was one of the main point for the participant to fully experience it. A movement workshop needs to be thought through the scenography, the space, the sound but also material tools that accompany and help the patient or student during a body movement workshop.
Somatic is a field within bodywork and movement studies which emphasises internal physical perception and experience.

How to create material tools to emphasise and expend the somatic techniques that are used in psychotherapy, dance, or spiritual practices?





Selected work