INTERVIEW
Susan Silas
By Brainard Carey
July 1, 2015
the self-portrait sessions (Yaddo session), 2011
Susan Silas is a visual artist who lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She is a dual American and Hungarian national. Silas has been exhibiting her work in the US and in Europe since 1985, and has taught at New York University and Cooper Union. In 1990, she had her first solo exhibition at fiction/nonfiction in New York, followed in 1991 by a solo exhibition in Paris at Galerie Antoine Candau. Her work has focused on landscape and memory for several decades. In 1997, she began working on Helmbrechts walk, 1998-2003, a project in which she retraced the steps of an all-women historical death march that took place at the close of the Second World War, walking for 22 days and 225 miles in Eastern Europe. Helmbrechts walk, 1998-2003 is the subject of chapters in both Landscapes of Holocaust Postmemory by Brett Ashley Kaplan and Memory Affects; The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing by Dora Apel.