The gallery is pleased to present, from May 21 onward and as part of Paris Gallery Weekend from May 29 to 31, a solo exhibition by Susana Solano, entitled Derniers mots (Last words), featuring a group of sculptures, primarily recent works, in which her enduring interest in Africa is once again evident.

Susana Solano’s sculpture is not only a meditation on form in space—an eternal concern of the sculptor—but is also inhabited by feeling and intention. Her work, most often made of stainless steel, is a journey through time. Today, Solano produces relatively few works, as she believes that an artwork cannot be duplicated; it must preserve its resonance and continue to “work” through time. Moreover, she speaks about her practice with a certain reserve and firmly rejects all rhetoric.

“The truth is that the creative spark emerges without my forcing it, from a familiar and social environment, from my personal experiences, from everyday life, from what I know and what I do not know, from what hurts me and what makes me happy. The work no longer belongs to me, and that amazes me, because it belongs to itself. I have only been an instrument, perhaps a shadow, of collective memory. Any attempt at explanation is anecdotal, and the greatest anecdote would be to tell or write it myself. Art is something else; therein lies its glory, in a world increasingly filled with agreements, rules, methods, bureaucracies, truths, reasons… and their opposites.”