Creation as a form of resistance, and a catalyst for dialogue.
Valentine Golinelli is a Swiss-Mexican multidisciplinary artist whose practice spans screen printing, embroidery, textile installations, and mixed media. Through her work, she explores urgent social issues with a particular focus on women's rights and collective memory.
Valentine spent a decade working as a social worker, directly supporting people and marginalised communities, including migrants, people living in precarious situations, and people with mental and physical disabilities. These experiences deeply inform her artistic practice, where creation becomes both a form of resistance and a catalyst for dialogue.
Valentine uses embroidery, screen printing, textile installations, and mixed media to weave together personal narratives and collective histories. Her work explores the memory of collective trauma, challenges stigmas and taboos, and reimagines narratives that question the structures of contemporary society. Through craft, she creates a language of resistance, remembrance, and dialogue.
"Bodegon" is a still-life-inspired installation that addresses the themes of violence and female rage stemming from gender-based violence. This work pays homage to the collective anger and frustration of women who have suffered the systemic inequalities, oppression, and stifling expectations perpetuated by a patriarchal society. It draws inspiration from the life story of the Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, whose experience of rape and subsequent trial exemplify the fight against violence against women and the demand for recognition and justice.
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"Earth Body" is a deeply intimate sculpture that encapsulates the complex emotions surrounding the journey of feminine identity following the traumatic experience of breast surgery — the breast being so close to the heart, and such a societal symbol of femininity. This piece confronts the profound loneliness often felt during recovery, reflecting a journey toward the reappropriation of one's body, and a loving acceptance of its new shape.
Inspired by the astrological sign of the horse, made in a Swiss traditional Poya paper-cut scene and framed in a lace-like detail. The horse — the seventh of the twelve animals in the Chinese zodiac — is known for agility, strength, and resilience, and symbolizes courage and a pioneering spirit.
Drawing on the fabric banners used by the suffragettes, each element in this piece carries its own symbol. Textile and sewing crafts have long been dismissed as craft rather than art — yet sewing has been a form of political defense for centuries, giving women both financial independence and a voice in politics. Cloth banners were central to the women's rights movements of the 19th and 20th centuries.
La que se muerde los puños de rabia y la rabia la muerde a ella. A self-portrait made in her garden in Geneva, one colour from the risograph series "Matriarchy" — a body veiled in lace, caught between concealment and exposure.
Stitched by hand: "Dignity, humanity, and power over my own body."
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Wheatpasted posters, left unsigned in public space — reclaiming the wall as a place for testimony.
4to Piso, Colonia San Rafael, Mexico City. Second collective exhibition in this space — sixteen artists activating the 4th floor, with a closing night of performances. With Victoria Magnolia, Manuel Trujillo Morris, Francisca Ponce Sousa, Rosita Relampago, Mr Shss, Rufus Shakespeare, Marianne Wasowska, Luisa M., and others.
Group show by Olivia Oceane. Exhibited alongside contemporary works, with the companion pieces "Souvenirs from Kiss my 🍑 show" and "the woven child 🎀."
Group exhibition of the risograph series exploring feminine narrative and memory.
A multidisciplinary collective film in which she appears alongside Victoria Magnolia, Manuel Trujillo Morris, Francisca Ponce Sousa, Rosita Relampago, Rufus Shakespeare, Mr Shss, Marianne Wasowska, and others.