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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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08 THE VILLAGE PEOPLE






YEAR:     2021LOCATION: 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
With the ‘Village People’ we looked at how we can use Willows and Reeds - two commonly found raw materials - to explore the theme ‘hunger’. Using only nature and our own two hands, we made different tools and shelters to uncover more about where we come from and how we might be able to apply our local resources into everyday life. Taking a step back enables us to contemplate the environment from a whole new perspective.

We headed outside to pratice the mindset of hunter-gatherers. With the focus to question our everyday environment from a different perspective - what does relying on nature really mean? This is an excursion where we harvert materials from our local surroundings not as carftmen, but as survivors. We huntered for stories and gathered information that we tried to translate into reality.

We as students from Design Academy Eindhoven had a need to be in nature, to be surrounded by people once again, to learn from each other and to collaborate in order to create a larger entity. To re-connect, to re-discover what is important for us. The need to go extreme to stisfaction of what is missing. To start from scartch. To go back to where we came from and to remember our roots. To follow our fascinations as a piece of a larger whole. But mostly to play, have fun and to make memories.

We were more interested in the process of what it is to work and build together by starting from scartch. We aimed to live in our village for few days, to experience what we have made and ultimately react and explore what it is like to be in this space that we have created together.

This village was organised in different focus (projet), which constituted the village itself:
-Water systems and sourcing.
-Philosophy and structure
-Food and Kitchen
-Structures and shelter
-Social Dynamics and communication
-Movement and self-expression. (Harvest of kinetic memory project).





  


Selected work