My name is Susana Vasquez Torres and I am a Peruvian artist living in Berlin. I was born in the chaotic and incredible city of Lima in 1990. In 2010 I started my artistic education at the National School of Fine Arts of Peru (ENSABAP) from where I graduated in 2016 in Fine Art with focus in painting. In 2018 I moved to Berlin looking for new horizons for my artistic process and to study the master’s degree Art in Context at the Berlin University of Art, which I finished in 2022.

In my artistic projects I work with different disciplines such as painting, performance, graphic arts, animation and video.  I am also passionate about artistic mediation, art education and the artistic use of public space. And how from the latter we can position ourselves as a community and inhabitants of a city.

My artistic practice is feminist and is part of the fight against patriarchy. From there have emerged the projects Irremediable mar, about the role of women in the history of Peru; En casa, which deals with domestic violence; Las horas heridas, about feminicide and Bleeding Stories, a project on the thema menstruation. Bleeding Stories is a project on which I am currently still working and which aims to generate collective knowledge from sharing. I have also work in personal projects that follow a process of introspective research and affections such as La genética espiritual, about my family history; El monstruo, on the thema emotional grief and Endometriosis.