We Are The Witches - Colouring Room
Interactive art installation
FiLia BRighton 2025
Originally published as a hand-drawn colouring book, We Are the Witches was reimagined by the artist as a large-scale, participatory installation for the FiLiA conference. Conceived as a space of rest within an intense political gathering, the work invited women to enter the book itself: walls covered from floor to ceiling with black-and-white witches, waiting to be coloured.
Created on a zero budget and constructed entirely by hand, the installation was built from hundreds of A3 prints assembled into monumental wallpaper, panel by panel. Faced with an all-brick venue, the artist devised a temporary, non-invasive structure using hand-cut grey boards and adhesive, allowing the work to exist without damaging the space.
Part sanctuary, part collective artwork, the installation offered a pause from debate and urgency — a tactile, shared act of making. Over months of solitary labour, the project moved from private cut-and-paste process to a public, immersive environment: a space made for women, by women.

(c) Pauline Makoveitchoux

(c) Pauline Makoveitchoux

(c) Pauline Makoveitchoux

Building

Behind the scenes - Angela C. Wild

Behind the scenes - Angela C. Wild

Behind the scenes - Angela C. Wild

Behind the scenes - Angela C. Wild

Behind the scenes - Angela C. Wild

Behind the scenes - Angela C. Wild
An entire room becomes spell and sanctuary: seven metres long, three metres high, assembled by hand from the pages of We Are the Witches, magnified to engulf the body. This immersive environment begins in stark black and white, awaiting the touch of women who enter, linger, draw, inscribe, return —the walls themselves becoming a living palimpsest of collective memory.
As colour accumulates, chaos blooms: an artwork in perpetual becoming, co-authored, unruly, impossible to fix. At weekend’s end, it disappears—its destruction underscoring the transience of revolt and the impossibility of containing women’s imagination.
At its core is herstory: the radical memory of the witches, women exterminated in their millions through a church- and state-orchestrated femicide still unacknowledged today. They were the spinsters and the rebels, the midwives suppressed by the rise of patriarchal medicine, the women who would not bend to a male god, the Beguines who dared to live without men and were despised for it. This room refuses their erasure. It stages a collective rite of remembrance and resistance, where women become both witness and artist, restoring the witches not as relics of superstition, but as ancestors in revolt—alive in colour, alive in us.


Taking doww
The dismantling of the room became a collective act. Improvised on the day, women were invited to take part in the cathartic process of bringing the installation down. Panels were carefully peeled away, hands meeting the surface one last time. Participants were also invited to cut out and take home any fragment of the work they chose, allowing the installation to continue its life beyond the room — carried into women’s homes across the world.



















