Susana Aldanondo
Her Libertango, 2025
Oil on canvas
9 x 12 x .8 inches
 
This work offers an examination of the historical and ongoing struggles faced by women within a male-dominated social and cultural framework. The composition depicts a woman asserting her claim over what has traditionally been denied to her, symbolically reclaiming space from male authority.
 
Both the instrument and the dance function as powerful symbols of longstanding systems of exclusion that have marginalized women. Through the symbolism, the work challenges norms and calls upon the viewer to reconsider gendered boundaries within cultural traditions. The woman details empowerment, equity, and autonomy. This is also:  Her Libertango.