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The Centre del Carme Cultura Contemporània (CCCC) presents "The Subversive Stitch", an exhibition by María Carbonell that connects textile tradition with feminist struggle, recovering the memory of British suffragists and linking it to the demands of current movements. The project grew out of Carbonell’s research during her creative residency with the Consorci de Museus at Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras in Alicante, where she studied the legacy of the British suffragists by examining the patterns, embroidery, colors, and forms of the turn-of-the-century banners they carried in their marches. That research is now expanded in this exhibition. Carbonell describes the show as a reflection on textiles and the body through a genealogy of women. The ten banners displayed in the gallery create a symbolic bridge between the British suffrage movement and contemporary feminist activism. The artist notes that the banners used in London marches between 1907 and 1913 to demand voting rights were significant because they marked the first time textile practices were used as tools of political claim-making, bringing a language associated with the domestic sphere and femininity into public space. The exhibition title refers to Rozsika Parker’s 1984 book "The Subversive Stitch", which examines how embroidery has functioned both as a means of female domestication and as a possible space of emancipation and resistance.