Su Melo makes sculptures and installations as active agents, as personal translators of multisensory knowledge. Through her work she aims to challenge the hegemony of individualistic perceptions of an imposed civilisational and separatist logic and propose an experiential language based on connectivity and collective consciousness.
Her artistic journey weaves together diverse cultural experiences, blending traditional South American and Indian art practices with contemporary perspectives. She uses artistic expression to embody narratives of heritage, community, and cognitive understanding. Ceramics serve as her primary medium, allowing exploration of social and cultural dimensions.
In her work she makes tangible what can be intangible and then, as a decolonial exercise, she equally validates these types of understanding with what is consived as logic or rational in terms of objectivity and cognitive knowledge. She considers this exercise as a strong practice of empathy. An inner play between our physical existence and an expanded insight of social and nature existance and care.