Susana Ayres

About

Susana Ayres’ artistic work has mainly developed around the creation of abstract images. Her practice is also closely related to the process, where chance and revelation may act as catalyzers.

By creating graphical compositions which will result from the combination of creative expression and a set of elements – the manipulation of pigments, the work table, cadence of gesture, weight of the body, paper grain and, importantly, the memory of materials – Susana Ayres aims to propose a space between drawing, engraving and painting.

The artist intends these surfaces to become tactile or perhaps atmospheric, invoking different states of matter and realities into which the observers can immerse themselves. For subject, she is drawn to the innate freedom in an image, its self-sufficiency from a representation, making sure that several possibilities take place in the interpretative space of the observer.

bio

Lisbon, 1988.
Masters in Architecture by Universidade Técnica de Lisboa in 2012; architect by trade.
Between 2018-2020 enrollment in the Drawing and Painting Academy, at Mart Art School.
Home in São Paulo, Rotterdam, and currently Lisbon.
Since 2020 artist resident at Mart Art School.