Susana Rodríguez

Susana Rodríguez (born 1980) is a Mexican visual artist who has had a number of solo exhibitions and has participated in various group exhibitions. Her work often consists of installations.

Biography

Susana Rodríguez was born in Guadalajara, México in 1980. The artist chose the title because a locust is a very passive and quiet creature, but turns into a savage beast when its habitat is disturbed, causing further destruction in a domino effect. A critic has described the work as "silent poetry", using images rather than words.

Rodríguez was inspired by the flash fiction story El emigrante by Luis Felipe Lomelí to create an installation named ¿Olvida usted algo? – ¡Ojalá! that opened in August 2009 at the Casa del Lago in Mexico City. This work explores the idea of a building that perhaps has been destroyed during a storm, but where traces remain of the time when it was inhabited. The outdoor installation is constructed of bricks, concrete, ceramic tiles and a wooden door. The work is ambiguous, leaving it to the viewer to interpret whether the building was destroyed, is in the process of being built, or is complete. The artist has said she addresses the dialectic between construction and destruction as an event that helps us understand and accept the transformation of life as inevitable.

In July 2009 Rodríguez participated with Emily Landon and Katie Murray in the group exhibition The Communication Consideration Coordination at the Kate Werble Gallery in New York. For the exhibition she constructed a "container" that combined sculpture, mural painting and cut vinyl to make a 3-dimensional scene that incorporated the gallery façade. She returned to the Kate Werble Gallery for the exhibition Pinch Pots and Pyramids (October–December 2009), with artists Liliane Lijn, Sam Moyer, Ryan Reggiani, Halsey Rodman and Molly Smith. Her work at this show was based on broken and reassembled ceramic cups.

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions include: