About

Susana Vidal (Venezuela) is an artist based in Madrid whose work explores symbolic territories of identity, consciousness, and inner transformation. After spending nearly a decade in Texas, her recent move to Spain has marked a new phase in her practice, expanding the dialogue between personal experience, memory, and environment.

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Vidal’s artistic trajectory does not follow a conventional academic path. Initially trained in law, her journey into the visual arts has been deeply self-directed and multidisciplinary, moving through creative fields such as culinary arts, polymer clay jewelry, illustration, and eventually painting. This independence from formal structures informs a practice that privileges intuition, experimentation, and the development of a highly personal visual language.

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In her paintings and drawings, Vidal constructs symbolic universes where the body, thought, and environment intertwine. Her compositions often incorporate words, diagrams, organic symbols, and hybrid figures that evoke mental maps or emotional cartographies. Recently influenced by the writings of Carl Jung, her work increasingly engages with the exploration of the unconscious and the process of individuation, where image-making becomes a means of observing and navigating inner psychological landscapes.

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The city of Madrid has begun to play a central role in this investigation. Everyday elements—snippets of overheard conversations, domestic gestures, flavors, and urban rituals—are transformed into symbolic fragments within her compositions. These elements accumulate into what might be described as an intimate topography, where the experience of place becomes inseparable from the formation of identity.

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Vidal’s practice is currently undergoing a period of transition and expansion. Her recent works suggest a movement away from more direct figurative narratives toward visual structures of greater symbolic and psychological density. In this process, painting becomes a space of inquiry and self-exploration, where intuition, chance, and doubt operate as essential creative forces.

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Through this evolving body of work, Susana Vidal proposes an open reflection on the construction of the contemporary self—an ever-shifting terrain shaped by memory, experience, and imagination.