Achievement

Achievement uses artificial intelligence (AI) to highlight the success of black women throughout history. At times when they have been empowered, they have shown their strength and resilience. Susana Pilar uses the wide spectrum of possibilities offered by AI to magnify these moments, adding her imagination, taking special interest in those events that have been poorly recorded or of which no record exists. Many black people abducted during colonisation achieved great things before, during and after they were enslaved. In this piece, the artist proposes to use AI to highlight and fill those gaps in our history.

Susana Pilar Delahante
 

Susana Pilar Delahante Matienzo was born in Havana, Cuba. From 2011 to 2013, she pursued postgraduate studies at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design (HfG), Germany, with a DAAD stipend. From 1998 to 2008, she studied at the Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes San Alejandro and the Instituto Superior de Arte in Havana, Cuba. She was a CAD+SR 2019-20 Research Fellowship artist-in-residence in Italy and Kenya, as well as a Peter and Irene Ludwig Grant visiting professor at the University of Fine Arts in Budapest, Hungary, in 2020. Some of her solo shows include Achievement, Secession, Vienna, Austria (2024); Opening Paths, FOROF, Rome, Italy (2023); Resilience, TRUCK, Calgary, Canada (2022); Body Present, Kiosk, Ghent, Belgium (2019); Jardinera, Galleria Continua, Les Moulins, France (2018-2019); Dibujo intercontinental, Galleria Continua, La Habana, Cuba (2017); Un chino de paso por Venecia… camino a Cuba, ICI Venice, Italy (2017); Bala perdida, Villa Manuela, Havana, Cuba (2017); Reclaiming Meaning, Skövde Art Museum, Sweden (2016); Tropiques Héritage, André Arsenec gallery, Fort-de-France, Martinique (2015), and Fiebre cerebral, Villa de Bank, Enschede, the Netherlands (2011).

Standing out among the group exhibitions or events in which she has participated are the 6th Lubumbashi Biennial, Democratic Republic of Congo (2019); the 13th Havana Biennial, Cuba (2019); Resilience and Resistance in African Diaspora, New Museum of African Civilizations, Dakar, Senegal (2018); the 56th International Art Exhibition, Cuban Pavilion, Venice, Italy (2015); the 1st BIAC Martinique (2013); Prome Encuentro Bienal Arte Contemporáneo di Caribe, Aruba (2012); the 3rd Biennale Arts Actuels Réunion, Reunion Island (2011), and the 7th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea (2008).