Paseo Falda Nijmegen

Paseo Falda is a collaborative and evolving art and research project that emerges from the need to make visible the everyday experiences of gender-based violence (GBV) in public space through artistic and collaborative practices. The project began in Puebla, Mexico as a series of participatory workshops about creative writing and textile interventions, to start a dialogue about gender-based violence in public spaces. The initiative emerged from the intention to collectivize the affects, experiences, and sensations generated through the interaction between the body and the urban environment, particularly in relation to the clothing we inhabit. This mode of interaction establishes a dialogic relationship between space, textiles, and bodies – one that foregrounds the political contestation of urban space. The term Paseo in Spanish refers to the act of walking and to the spaces that facilitate movement – streets, plazas, and urban corridors. It also evokes the figure of the Flâneur – a detached urban stroller, that collects mental notes while leisurely wandering through the modern city – as theorized by Walter Benjamin. But reimagined here through a feminist lens that foregrounds the embodied and often precarious act of occupying public space as a woman. Falda (skirt in Spanish) functions simultaneously as symbol, medium, and provocation – serving as an object for reflection, memory, and resistance of feminized bodies.