Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo

Format: 21 x 29.7 cm

Details: softcover, 96 pages, postcard

Series design concept: Sabo Day

Graphic design: Sabo Day

Texts: Adiaratou Diarrassouba (conversation), Thomas Lax (conversation), Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo

Languages: English, German, Spanish

ca. 50 images

Secession 2024

Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, Cologne

ISBN 978-3-7533-0626-1

The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated publication with two conversations between the artist and the journalist Adiaratou Diarrassouba and Thomas Lax, curator at MoMA in New York, in which she discusses the new photo series Achievement, her work with AI image programs, and the role she ascribes to them in the creation of new archives.

Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo’s artistic intervention for the book is an action: wrapped in black gift paper, the book must first be unwrapped. There is something rebellious about the gesture of tearing open the paper, a nod back to the performance the artist conceived for the opening of her exhibition. On the inward-facing side of the paper, excerpts from her collage of different source texts for the spoken-word performance offer reflections on her identity as a Black woman and artist, on racism and resistance, and on visionary ways of living together.