Anatomy of Disobedience

Anatomy of Disobedience

Exploring the body as a site of resistance and reinvention

16th November 2025 - 20th November 2025

Private View 19th November 2025 (RSVP)

26 Lillie Road, London, SW6 1TS

Anatomy of Disobedience brings together five artists working at the intersection of painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Each of their practices inhabit the charged space between resistance and vulnerability, exploring how bodies—material, emotional, digital—refuse to conform. The works on display confront the systems that seek to define, regulate, and consume us: capitalism, surveillance, patriarchy, sexuality, race, and technology. Yet amid fragmentation and exposure, intimacy endures. These are bodies that disobey. They glitch, ache, and mutate; they reveal the instability of the narratives that shape them. From Adrián Coto Rodríguez’s chimeric photographic sculptures that unravel the illusion of a fixed self, to Sam Dawood’s collaborative activism against the algorithmic policing of bodies online, disobedience becomes both strategy and survival. Emily Hana’s work finds tenderness in artificial touch, while Rosalie Oakman’s visceral paintings reclaim embodiment from shame. Mingzhang Sun’s luminous canvases, steeped in Chinese poetics, trace the fading glow of youthful dreams — that resists being fully seen.

Each artist reimagines the body as a site of negotiation: between desire and discipline, exposure and retreat, connection and loss. Together, they propose disobedience not as rupture, but as a form of becoming—an ongoing choreography of thresholds where being misread, censored, or undone can also be an act of reclamation. This exhibition considers how the body is no longer a vessel of compliance but a living archive of contradictions: vulnerable, volatile, and defiantly alive.

Anatomy of Disobedience is curated by Rosalie Oakman, Sam Dawood, and Genevieve Barton. The exhibition is presented in partnership with Felstead Art.