Ana Suárez is a Venezuelan artist who, thanks to the free time of confinement, began to develop her art. After visiting and falling in love with Lanzarote, since 2017 she decided to settle on the island. This is where she has grown as an artist, combining artificial intelligence and creativity to tell the stories of the 'mujeronas'.
In her works, Suárez tries to make people reflect on the wisdom and strength of mature women, an idea that in some of her works she represents, for example, with an elderly lady with boxing gloves.
During the pandemic, the artist's most creative side was awakened due to free time and a failed love relationship. "I started to release all the impotence I felt through art," she says. "I did everything at home, but one day I asked the owner of a cafeteria in Haría if I could exhibit some works in the place, to which they replied yes. I sold everything the same day and I got excited and decided to fully enter this world," she recalls.
Creative process
It all begins with the creative process and, for this, she uses artificial intelligence, a tool that has recently arrived in our lives and that serves as support for certain jobs. The central image of the works corresponds to the image of a woman whom Suárez defines as 'mujerona'. The rest of the work is complemented with a collage made by the artist herself.
"All the women who appear in the works only exist in my mind because they are not real," she says. The artist focuses her works on older women in an attempt to get out of what is socially accepted. "I work with older women because it seems that only young women are in fashion," she says.
"I really like working with mature women because of the life experience and the strength they have behind them, but I'm not just talking about women from 90 years old, but women from 40 onwards," she highlights.
In the creation process, the artist designs the images using artificial intelligence and works on them until she gets what she considers "the perfect image". Then she prints and cuts them out. "Then I have a wood prepared with picture hangers that I make by hand and I glue the image there," she explains.
Suárez continues with the process by making a handmade collage with recycled magazines to which a special varnish is added to protect and finish the work. "It is a fusion of a modern technique such as artificial intelligence with another more traditional one with analog collage," she points out.
Other projects
Soon, the artist will attend an exhibition in Madrid after being chosen by an association called Franquearte that supports emerging and not so well-known artists. For this project, the association has asked her that in these works men appear instead of women on the occasion of LGBT Pride. "This is something specific because I am normally focused on women because I also come from the world of laughter therapy and I work with mirror cells," she specifies.
"Mirror cells are like replicating what they see and when I work with such powerful and colorful women with so much inner strength, they make that emotion contagious when you see them because I seek that empowerment and resilience reaches through my works," she declares.
Suárez continues explaining that "each woman has a story because, for example, the work of the elderly lady with boxing gloves speaks of the post-war women and of a girl who lost her childhood because she had to start working or taking care of her brothers and had to move forward".
These works are a kind of tool that, when admired, transmit the idea that "yes, it can be done". "They are women who inspire, who make you want to not give up and not be lamenting what is happening to us because many times they are things that can be overcome," she says.
On the other hand, the artist is working to exhibit her works in the alternative art gallery called Enmala and will soon also go to the Origen gallery for an exhibition.
How to acquire some of her works
Anyone who wishes to buy any of the works of the 'mujeronas', can do so by contacting Ana Suárez through her social networks. The artist attends to orders by private message on her Instagram profile (@_soyanasuarez).
You can also contact by sending an email or calling by phone that is located within the website.
