"the procession" Painting

Artist Susana Figueira was born in Durban, South Africa. Her artistic creation deals with analogies and themes situated between the fantastic and medieval imagery, incorporating the grotesque into playful beings that explore the irony of social relations in a popular religious and profane context.
Throughout her career, Susana Figueira has developed an artistic practice of investigation/production that departs from the history of the grotesque, more precisely from the core of the paintings of medieval altarpieces (in particular, Valencian Gothic works) that involve the aesthetic recovery of Medieval and/or Gothic motifs, demanding special attention, both in their fine detail and in the framing of the rich history of human behavior which, in our opinion, is of a complex and little assumed contemporary nature. It inscribes the patriarchal order of power, of fear, of the celebration of the festive, in opposition to normalization and rational control of life itself. On the other hand, there is a constant application and officinal recovery of ways of doing things from ancient times, applying ancient materials and techniques, such as engraving, polychromy, tempera or gilding, projecting into our days the essence of strangeness and surprise in the material particularities of such anachronism. Its main intention is to provide a moment of admiration and complicity among visitors through laughter.