GALERIE MAURITS VAN DE LAAR

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Los Corradores, 2024
Charcoal, acrylic, pastel on colored paper
193 x 140 cm.
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Susanna Inglada (Spain, 1983) is known for her collage works on paper of people who are involved in an intense, sometimes even violent interaction with each other. She often creates installations in which she expands the two dimensionality of her drawings into space.
She uses these highly expressive and dramatic figures to analyze the mechanisms of power in society. In particular she investigates social inequality, the role of women and how they are portrayed in art history. In 2020 she did a residency at the Accademia di Spagna in Rome to study how women are portrayed by male artist in baroque art. More recently she also focuses on gender and motherhood.
Before starting her education in visual arts Susanna Inglada studied theatre for two years at La Casona in Barcelona which explains the dramatic element in her work. In her installations she expands her drawings the three dimensional by putting figures and props on a kind of stage. The visitor can enter the installation and is thus confronted up close with the emotions of the characters. Social engagement is a constant factor which gives her work relevance and meaning in our complicated and often confusing present.
Susanna Inglada also experiments with disciplines outside drawing, at the moment she is completing a new animation, about Suzanna and the Elders for the Museum Gouda NL.
In 2021 she studied ceramics at EKWC Oisterwijk NL and in 2022 did a textile workshop at Lotto Zero in Prato Italy. Susanna Inglada was born in Banyeres del Penedes and lives and works in Amsterdam. Galerie Maurits van de Laar represents Susanna Inglada since 2018.