Mr. Broken Flowers is the second portrait of the blue royal family Broken Flowers, photography project directed by Vanessa Alami and the art direction of VisualSusana. This member of the bizarre family is having a birthday celebration alone in his kitchen inside his artificial and perfectly happy coloured world. His excess of glitter and brightness insinuates an inner necessity of hiding the darkness in which his life is based. However, the priority lays on having…
Pop decadence, the expression of a perfect and extraordinary version of you when the inside is close to welcoming the loneliness and personal self-destruction. Instead of acceptance a great selfie will be exposed on media. The weight of it is taking over society as the goal of showing not what is real, but how you would like it to happen. A beautiful world with beautiful characters but with shades of meaning. A contrast between beauty…
Wrapped is a black and white photography series produced in the winter of 2016 in Barcelona, where the character pronounces the stress of being oppressed by a material that, despite its inoffensive appearance, becomes a strong conditioning force. The transparency of the material leads to understanding how subliminal shapes are taking over the new format of oppression in the different levels of nowadays society. Wrapped transmits the pain and the impotence that one can experience…
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…
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…