Susana Blasco

Bilbao, Spain

@descalza

Susana Blasco portrait

Bio

Based in Bilbao, Spain (1972), Susana Blasco is a graphic designer, collage artist, and visual creator. Her work, both graphic and artistic, has been featured in specialized media and included in numerous solo and group exhibitions in the United States, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, Portugal, and across Spain. In 2017, she received a Gràffica Award for her contributions to the art of collage. She currently continues to combine her design practice with her ever-evolving artistic work.

Statement

“Memory is fragile, provisional. Each time we remember, we invent. That’s why in each collage the image fractures only to recompose onto itself afterward.

The same photograph, but different. Like a puzzle that makes sense by being disordered. Dismantling the image to understand how it works. Unraveling to weave again with the same ball of yarn. With this series of geometric collages made from found postcards with floral motifs, I dive deep into my most recurrent obsessions: the passage of time, fragmentation, compulsive order, and distortion. And some new ones, like color and decorative flowers as border elements between the natural and the constructed, confronting the organic with the mathematical. Resulting in collages that are simple and off-key at once. Ornamental and symbolic. Familiar yet mysterious." S.B.

Limited Edition Prints

Flores
Flores Available in 4 sizes
Edition varies by size
Limited Edition Print from €175,00
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Curatorial Note

In Susana Blasco’s hands, cutting becomes a way of joining things together. Her series transforms flowers into mosaics built from thin strips of paper, patiently woven until image and texture blur together. Geometry meets instinct here, and what we finally see depends as much on perception as on memory. Blasco’s practice lives between two temperaments: the precision of design and the warmth of remembrance. She dissects and rebuilds her images until they feel both tender and methodical, like structures made of air. The pieces speak quietly about how memory insists on order, and how emotion finds its own symmetry. In these works, flowers are no longer decoration or symbol—they become acts of endurance. Each one appears through repetition, through the steady rhythm of a hand aligning fragments into coherence. They don’t bloom in the usual way; they surface slowly, woven from patience, loss, and the soft persistence of time.

Original Artworks

Reinventario 01
Reinventario 01 5.3 x 3.1 in
Found antique postcard collage
Original Artwork €450,00
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Reinventario 03
Reinventario 03 5.1 x 3.3 in
Found antique postcard collage
Original Artwork €450,00
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