Rest in Resistance
From the soldaderas of the Mexican Revolution to the women of the wartime resistance — portraits of defiance and disappearance.
Oil on canvas, 120 x 80 cm, jan 2025
Andrée Geulen (1921–2022) — a teacher turned resistance member, she risked her life to save nearly 300 Jewish children in Belgium during World War II. As part of a network that rescued over 2,000 children, she became a symbol of courage and defiance. This work reimagines the only surviving photo of Andrée from that time, in which she appears in Brussels’ Nieuwstraat with a German soldier in the background.
Andrée
Oil on canvas, 140 x 110 cm, dec 2024
Micheline Blum-Picard was a member of a French resistance network during World War II. On D-Day, she was forbidden to take part in combat, a restriction often imposed on women in the resistance. Instead, she was assigned the role of nurse. Yet, in a striking exception, she was allowed to carry a weapon — a reminder of both the constraints and the contradictions faced by women in wartime.
Micheline
Oil on Canvas, 90 x 90 cm, dec 2024
Anonymous soldadera, 1910–1920. Women known as soldaderas played vital roles in the Mexican Revolution, often fighting alongside men on horseback. Yet their stories largely disappeared from history, their visibility erased once the battles were over. In this work, the detailed rendering of the horse and clothing contrasts with the woman’s head as a faceless yellow disc — a symbol of both her anonymity and the silenced legacy of countless women in war.
Soldadera
