My art practice is black, feminist, de-colonial, non-western and social. My several preoccupations engaged mostly to social concerns which I generally present through Art and non artistic disciplines; trying to give them symbolic solutions or personal responses managing art and extra disciplines tools for this purposes.

I suffered some familiar situations that stimulated my interest for the women situation all over world as well as the different ways of discrimination towards us. Then after this, the whole preoccupations became only one objective: to work on the basis of physical violence against Cuban women and the poor information that exist towards this phenomenon. Had been difficult to get this information and it is limited to few people; I got to get some access but without use the real images at my photos, so I had to look for formal methods to give solutions to the works: for example, to construct photo scenes on the basis of my memories. Just from this obstacle that ended afterwards, came out a formal and conceptual device in other works.

After my preoccupations focus in dead women due to violence because I realized they were not able to give oral testimony. During this investigation and process I got interest towards Death, I consider it is not a break and has been proved scientifically that in a dead body there are cells with supravital characteristics which allow them to continue alive.

Some elements connect all my works. First of all my preoccupation for represent what is real and what is suppose to be real. The realities that are hidden by specific tools created from the society to interrupt their knowledge, that’s why generally the main objective of my works is to use art as tool that proposes ways of access to its essence. I also want to mention my interest in the physical story and process of the body as well as the public as active participant in my work.

Susana Pilar