"RESIST"

What does it mean to resist?

Throughout history, resistance has taken countless forms: personal, political, poetic. For some, it is an act of survival; for others, an act of love. 

From Fragonard’s lover who surrenders to passion, unable to resist desire, to Basquiat’s furious confrontation of anti-Black violence and police brutality. Each image reveals how resistance is never singular, but adaptable to time and circumstance: Romeo and Juliet defy their families to pursue love; Keith Haring paints against ignorance and stigma; Toulmouche’s fiancée hesitates, perhaps resisting the life chosen for her; Delacroix immortalizes a revolution; Portinari exposes the pain of famine and poverty in northeast Brazil; Worth captures a protester’s arrest in the fight against fascism.

Each of these works, in its own way, becomes a mirror of resistance. Sometimes tender, sometimes violent, always human. 

CALL FOR ENTRIES

What are you resisting? Through art, we seek to provoke dialogue, question societal conventions, and amplify subversive voices. As an artist, your work becomes an act of defiance, inviting us to imagine new ways of seeing, thinking, and being.

Resistance can be grand or intimate, loud or quiet, but always transformative, subversive & transgressive. Through creative expression, we reclaim the right to dissent, to desire, to dream - and to make resistance both a concept and a lived experience. 

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OPEN CALL DETAILS

This call is open to all emerging artists, who have not yet had the opportunity to show their work widely.

EXHIBITION

The selected artworks will be exhibited at the great spaces of Full Circle, during the 2025 Ideas Festival  - the theme of which is "Resist", until early January.  

The artworks will be available for public viewing throughout the festival weekend, and on selected dates until the end of the show.

The exhibition will run from 26 November 2025 to 10th January at Full Circle in Ixelles. 

The multi-disciplinary location offers many possibilities for installation, space, audience and events around the exhibition. 

HOW TO APPLY

Artists are requested to send a digital version of their artwork and complete and online entry form.

ONLINE ENTRY FORM:  https://shorturl.at/aK3xa 

Digital files (art works) can be uploaded via the GOOGLE FORM  - if you have a Google account. 

ALTERNATIVELY:  Artists can send their works by email to :  resist-art [AT] fullcircle.eu

VIEW FULL TERMS & CONDITIONS

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