Susana Mendes Silva (Lisboa, 1972)
is a visual artist, performer and professor.
Her work incorporates elements of research and archival practice that leads to the creation of works whose historical and political references become visible as exhibitions, actions and performances that employ a wide variety of media. Her universe considers and reframes different social contexts without ever losing track of the individual’s uniqueness. Her psychological intimacy and her voice are often the means for the diffusion and reception of poetic and political messages that call upon them.
Susana studied Sculpture at FBAUL (Lisbon, PT), and in the MPhil/PhD Fine Art (Studio Based Research) at Goldsmiths College for which she was awarded a Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation grant. She has a PhD based in her practice — “Performance as an Intimate Encounter” — by the College of the Arts of the University of Coimbra. Susana is an Assistant Professor at the University of Évora in the Landscape Architecture MA and a Research fellow at CEIS20 / Universidade de Coimbra.
