Addressing Marinella Senatore’s preoccupations with equality and social change, the series 'Forms of protest by oppressed minorities re-emerge from the past' (2019) is a celebration of dance, music and theatre as forms of resistance and protest.

Senatore draws from dominant forms and motifs of mid to late 20th-century modernist painting, whilst producing a complex play between figures and ground. Images drawn from ballet choreographies, theatre and slogans addressing the factory as the traditional site of exploiting labour are collaged onto mirror supports. The black and white images are culled from the work of Carl Van Vechten (1880-1964), a dance critic and writer who took photographs of dancers excluded because of their race, sexual orientation or social class. Through a link between the past and present, Forms of protest by oppressed minorities re-emerge from the past (2019) questions and challenges our own role in shaping history.