𝓟𝓪𝓵𝓸𝓶𝓪 𝓜𝓪𝓭𝓻𝓲𝓭

During her Master’s studies, Paloma Madrid initiated an artistic research process together with both established and emerging artists, focusing on representation and racism within cultural institutions. The work was initially organized under the name The Non White Artistic Experience, and later continued as The Non Invaders.

The research critically examined how representation is often positioned as a solution within institutional contexts, without acknowledging how racism is embodied through lived experience, memory, and affect. A central insight of the research was that difference does not only operate at a symbolic or representational level, but is deeply inscribed in bodies carrying histories of racism, violence, and exclusion—making it insufficient to rely on representation alone as a unifying strategy.

This research has had a lasting influence on Madrid’s artistic practice, particularly in her work with body politics, care-based methodologies, participatory processes, and choreography as a site for complex and sometimes non-reconcilable relations.