Susanna Inglada adjusts the cliché of Medusa as a fatal woman by presenting her crying: the two blue arches are the tears flowing from her eyes. Medusa is the victim of Poseidon who rapes her upon which Athena, out of jealousy, turns her into a gorgon with snake hair that petrifies anyone who looks into her eyes.
During a residency in Rome in 2020 Susanna Inglada researched the image of women through the eyes of male artists in art history. This often moves between the extremes of the pious Madonna to the depraved temptress. Susanna Inglada’s Medusa rather is a victim, condemned to an existence as a monster.