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Lola Gonzalez is an interdisciplinary artist, dancer, and somatic practitioner whose work explores the body as a space of memory, expression, and transformation. Rooted in dance and movement, her practice integrates artistic creation, psychosomatic approaches, and holistic care.
Through performances, workshops, and participatory projects, she creates sensory and embodied experiences that invite individuals and communities to reconnect with their physical, emotional, and relational landscapes. Her work engages with themes of body memory, resilience, vulnerability, and collective healing within contemporary social contexts.
Lola graduated Cum Laude from the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2023 and has trained in psychosomatic and transgenerational therapy. Since then, she has developed her practice Heal in (e)motion, through which she facilitates individual and group sessions, artistic interventions, and movement-based programs addressing emotional well-being, chronic pain, and embodied awareness.
Alongside her work in dance and somatic therapy, she engages in hands-on artistic practices such as tattooing, drawing, and visual arts, deepening her sensitivity to the body as a site of ritual, identity, and storytelling.
She believes that the body carries personal and collective histories, and that movement can become a powerful language for listening to these stories, transforming them, and cultivating resilience. Her work seeks to bridge art, care, and social engagement, offering spaces where creativity supports healing and self-understanding.
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07 HARVEST OF KINETIC MEMORY
YEAR: 2021
LOCATION: FOREST IN BEST, Design Academy
Eindhoven
PARTICIPANTS:
Celine Castagnet
Klara Branting Paulsell
Colline Toutain
Leo Reynier Prat
Clemens Tomlow
Marianne Guermonprez
Lola Gonzalez
Camila d’Etutt d’Assay
Janneke Schreuder
Eliska Janeckova
Eros Risiglione
Camille Pelissou
Ori Orisun Merhav
Nadine Rauterberg
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BRINGING BODY MEMORY AWARENESS TO A BULDING COMMUNITY
Withing the frame of a collective project of building a village from scartch, the research started from those questions:
How do our bodies will remember this collective experience?
How can this memory help to build body knowledge for the future?
My body is my unconscious memory, the one that I can't control. I can't shape the way my body experienced something, but the way my body experienced things shapes me.
In this village, I wanted to bring back to the daily life, the awareness towards our body movement and the ones surrounding us, but more specifically to our body memory.
I started to observe people working at the village, looking at their postures, their body movements, the repetitions in the actions, the motion between a point to another... And I quickly realised that my observations were in fact a communal memory of this village through body movements. I was harvesting kinetic memory to build body knowledge.
Through those workshops that I hosted, we built another way of communicating. We all reflected on what it means to build and live inside this village through our body motion and self-expression. Without the tools, without the environment, without nothing but our body we can now express through our movement and postures, the experience, and we can also teach it to someone who will then physically be prepared to certain actions and body motions.
What would happen if we unlearned to learn with our mind first but with our body movement and expression? How can we build body knowledge for the future?
Even if the project ended and was a collective ephemeral experience, our bodies, they will never forget and had saved in every moment, an infinite sensory and bodily impressions which were not conscious but will act on us.