18 Oct — 21 Nov 2025 @Évora

Leaking Bodies, Solo Show by Susana Rocha Hedone #2 — Technology

“Pleasure is often seen as something positive, isn’t it? The pleasure brings us joy, happiness, and relaxation. But some pleasures can be morbid, masochistic, melancholic... and there’s beauty in that. Technology functions, in this sense, as an excellent support for, for example, our memory. It offers us triggers and archives, allowing us to access memories and experiences in a way that was previously impossible. There is, for example, a pleasure in remembering that can be very rewarding.” SR

Susana Rocha (Braga, 198) Lives and works in Lisbon, since 2006. Visual Artist. Graduated in Painting by Fine Arts Faculty, University of Lisbon (2010), Master in Painting (2012) by the same University. Master in Teaching - Visual Arts by the Education Institute of the University of Lisbon (2013) and PhD in Visual Arts (2020) by the Fine Arts Faculty of the University of Lisbon. Founder and Artistic Director of DUPLEX, where she develops curatorial projects, directs and produces the programming of DUPLEX gallery and the International Residency Program. Her work has been shown in several national and international contexts, most recently in the solo exhibitions "The Body is Absent but not the Desire" at Galeria ATM (Gijón, ES)  2023, "MOM they made you a garden, but it cannot be watered" at DUPLEX (Lisbon, PT) 2023, "Parallax" at the Sociedade Nacional de Belas Artes (Lisbon, PT) 2022 and in the group exhibitions "Gémeos Falsos" at Appleton Square (Lisbon, PT) and " Taking the Light Out of the Prism" at OGFE (Lisbon, PT). Her practice develops around tensions, which are explored through a multiplicity of materials with characteristics with metaphorical potential, which often evoke an implicit relationship with a suggested body; that manifest a transitory meaning of life, where the experience of mourning and the absurd have a strong presence; that start from the phenomenon of suggestion to embody absence, limitation and failure.