{"id":1815,"name":"","email":"kaat.vannieuwenhuyse@muhka.be","language_id":1,"permalink":"susana-pilar-delahante-matienzo","deleted":false,"legal_status_id":47,"url_1":"","twitter":null,"category_id":47,"date_of_birth":"1984-01-01T00:00:00.000+01:00","place_of_birth":null,"country_of_birth":null,"place_of_residence":null,"country_of_residence":null,"cached_privileges_list":"User","cached_tag_list":"","publishing_process_id":1,"can_log_in":false,"firstname":"Susana Pilar","lastname":"Delahante Matienzo","annotation":"","url_2":"","url_3":"","cached_name":"Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo","date_of_death":null,"cached_name_asc":"Delahante Matienzo, Susana Pilar","stream_count_app":18,"gender":"female","platform_admin":null,"description_ca":"","short_description_ca":"","description_it":"","short_description_it":"","hide_from_json":false,"prev_platform_id":null,"description_uk":null,"short_description_uk":null,"description_tr":null,"short_description_tr":null,"poster_image":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/mhka_ensembles_production/assets/public/000/041/629/large/Annoniem_Female.png?1536674207","poster_credits":null,"media_count":1,"items_count":1,"translations":[{"locale":"en","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eCuban artist \u003cb\u003eSusana Pilar Delahante Matienzo\u003c/b\u003e (\u0026deg;1984) lives and works alternately in Havana and Karlsruhe. She graduates from the Escuela de Artes Pl\u0026aacute;sticas in San Alejandro and the Universidad\u0026nbsp;de las Arte\u003ci\u003es \u003c/i\u003ein Guayaquil\u003ci\u003e,\u003c/i\u003e and went on to follow a postgraduate study programme at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design in 2013.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eThe core of her oeuvre revolves around the social barriers and psychological menace that individuals - mostly women - encounter and experience when they find themselves on unknown and therefore hazardous terrain, whether or not they were forced into this space. To illustrate these concepts she draws on the Afro-Cuban tradition of Santeria to function as her visual frame of reference. She primarily works with photography and video installations to produce powerful, jarring visual images that always teeter on the edge of the morally acceptable. Her work is incredibly intriguing precisely because of her fearless approach to menacing situations in which she frequently positions herself as a victim; moreover, Matienzo takes no steps to shun subjecting her own body to affliction. This is something she physically exemplifies in her decision to conceive a child in 2007 with the help of an anonymous donor. In this way she experiences the cycle of life and death \u0026minus; inherent to every sperm cell \u0026minus; as a scientific artistic process. After 48 days, this process is brought to its end in a miscarriage, which she calls \u003ci\u003eThe Scandal of the Real\u003c/i\u003e. This project leads to a documentary ensemble, which assembles all the scientific facts, photographs and details of her medical examinations touching upon this personally traumatic experiment.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eSusana Pilar Delahante Matienzo\u0026#39;s inner artist knows no bounds, with no subject too sacred or taboo. She relentlessly looks the obstacles of life hard in the eye and transforms these into compelling images that captivates the viewer\u0026#39;s gaze.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"nl","short_description":"","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eDe Cubaanse kunstenares \u003cb\u003eSusana Pilar Delahante Matienzo\u003c/b\u003e (\u0026deg;1984) woont en werkt afwisselend in Havana, waar ze afstudeert aan de Escuela de Artes Pl\u0026aacute;sticas San Alejandro en de Universidad\u0026nbsp;de las Arte\u003ci\u003es,\u003c/i\u003e en in Karlsruhe in Duitsland, waar ze in 2013 een postuniversitaire opleiding volgt aan de Staatliche Hochschule f\u0026uuml;r Gestaltung.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eDe kern van haar oeuvre draait om de sociale obstakels en psychologische bedreigingen waar individuen \u0026minus; meestal vrouwen \u0026minus; mee te maken krijgen wanneer ze zich op onbekend en dus onveilig terrein bevinden \u0026minus; al dan niet gedwongen. Voor de verbeelding daarvan put ze uit het visuele referentiekader van de Santeria, de afro-Cubaanse traditie. Ze werkt voornamelijk met fotografie en video-installaties om krachtige, storend visuele beelden te produceren die zich steeds op de rand van de morele aanvaardbaarheid bevinden. Haar onverschrokken benadering van bedreigende situaties maakt haar werk, waarin ze vaak zelf als slachtoffer aanwezig is, bijzonder intrigerend.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eDe kunstenares schrikt er niet voor terug om haar eigen lichaam beproevingen op te leggen. Zo besluit ze zich in 2007 te laten bevruchten door een anonieme donor om de cyclus van leven en dood \u0026minus; die intrinsiek vervat zit in elke zaadcel \u0026minus; te ervaren als een wetenschappelijk artistiek proces. Na 48 dagen eindigt het gebeuren \u0026minus; dat ze \u003ci\u003eHet schandaal van het Re\u0026euml;le\u003c/i\u003e noemt \u0026minus; met een spontane abortus. Het project resulteert in een documentair ensemble dat alle wetenschappelijke feiten, foto\u0026rsquo;s en onderzoeken bevat omtrent een persoonlijk traumatisch verlopen experiment.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: justify;\"\u003eVoor de kunstenares in Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo is geen enkel onderwerp taboe. Ze kijkt de obstakels van het leven staalhard aan en maakt er beklijvende beelden van.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n"},{"locale":"fr","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"ru","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"de","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"es","short_description":"","description":""},{"locale":"el","short_description":"","description":""}],"locations":[{"country":"CU","place":"Havana","category":{"en":"Born in","nl":"Geboren in","fr":"Né à"}}]}