Simply Blood my Mind! This unique moment when the pain leaks down your pants and you just keep on going as if nothing has happened, with your best neutral expression shining on your face. Yes women, you are heroïnes, and it is time to tell it loud: yes we bleed, and there is no shame in it! …or not anymore. The reality once more falls into foolishness. We can’t pretend it doesn’t exist, and it…
Aristocrazy in front of a symbol of death. The first traces of a concept start to emerge in this piece: decadence undercovered of a royal appearance. Susy and the Spine is a colour photography series of Vanessa Alami, in collaboration with Ddpendientes, produced in 2016 in Amsterdam. The photographer shows a very well balanced content composition between elegance and fantasy. The final touch of glow on the images leads the eye towards an innocent appearance,…
Ireland was the home of the Ddpendientes artists from 2008 until approximately 2011. A large dose of live music combined with the most extraordinary green landscapes, represented an inspiration, and therefore supposed an inflexion point in their artistic careers for both of them. After Galway Vanessa moved to Buenos Aires, Argentina, to attend Photography Direction and Cinematographic camera studies at the Cinema University FUC, and Susana to Amsterdam to attend the Digital Film production studies…
Poesía al Desnudo (Madrid 2005) was made in the studio of the photography artist Chus de la Cruz. It is a nude photography serie where the model paints her body with her own poetry. Here starts the first piece of a series that travels through the age of the visual artist and writer VisualSusana and the photographer Vanessa Alami, Black and Red and White, where both artists combine photography and art direction in a delicate…
Spectaculaire Oorakeligheid is a wild street theatre group based in Amsterdam that surprises the city once in a while with their unexpected, discrete appearances full of social critique and humour. VisualSusana has had the pleasure of collaborating with them, in order to spread and show their messages since the collective was created. Shop till You Drop was a performance playing with the visibility line, bringing the shopping image to an exaggerated extreme. A group of…
Release from the first short movie written and directed by VisualSusana in 2013, Conditional is just Subjunctive. Defined as auteur cinema, the director wants to capture the magic of that unique moment in life when a chance passes by your hands, and you decide either take it or not, and those who choose to stay in the repentance. Starring Vincent Pineau and Andrea Gabriele Hackl, the shot took place in Ruigoord, near Amsterdam, thanks to…
Hay Tor- tor- Tortilla (How to cook society and make it submissive) is a colour photography and text exhibition that represents a parody from the society cupola and their implicit strategies to manipulate people. The images follow the shape of a cooking recipe, done in toilets. What could be cocked in a toilet… ? This piece is a work from Ddpendientes, Vanessa Alami as photographer and VisualSusana art director and writer, with the special collaboration…
Born in the heart of the emblematic city of Barcelona, the artistic duo compromised of Vanessa Alami and VisualSusana decided to decorate the public and alternative spaces with their exhibitions and cultural events. Their activity started out based mainly in the creation of pieces that combined photography and poetry, as well as the creation of an exclusive reality for the taking of a shot. Ddpendientes debut with Kiss me Corasón (Kiss Me my Heart), which…