Welcome to Art Mistake where visual art meets sound, an Multidisciplinary platform
created by the audiovisual artist and performer Su Eko, who opened voice in the underground
music industry as a songwriter, vocalist and bassist for the band Velvet Kills.
A wide knowledge-base deeply invested in a range of different art skills and
materials merging to realize new realities.
A deep passion for art led her to travel around the world with her work. She was based in New York in 2007 and later moved to Paris where she spent a decade blossoming her creativity and developing her style.
Su Eko’s makeup work has gained recognition for its blends, fresh complexions, elegant lines and contrast of sophisticated grunge styles in her smoky eyes.
Emerging in the French capital alongside the photographers Isabelle Chapuis, Jonathan Segade, Michele Bloch-Stuckens, Thomas Lavelle, Anthony Parmelee, among others.
Her work has been published in fashion magazines L’Officiel, Elle, Número, Blink, Shoes Up, L’Edito, Clear, Kitten Magazine, Edit, Pure, Jalouse, Prim, Kurv, Fault, Dirty Glam, Tendencias, in campaigns for Aridza Bross, Batucada, Benetton, Berenice, CosmoParis, La Loop, Microsoft and on the catwalks of Paris and Lisbon Fashion Week.
Represented in 2012 by Carol Hayes Agency in London and Yumikoto in Paris, Su Eko stepped into Paris Fashion Week as the lead makeup designer for Lee Young and Jean Luc Amsler’s ‘Fall/Winter 2012/13 Paris Couture’ shows.
She was also part of Aaron de Mey‘s make-up team for Saint Laurent ‘FW 2013/2014 Paris Fashion Week’ and Daniel Sallstrom’s team for Madonna’s music video Medellín.
She also worked with international celebrities Jerry Hall, Linsay Lohan, John Glover, Zelda Williams, Camille Rowe and Andrej Pedic.
“My career was growing behind the backdrop of the glamourous city of Paris. Although I rejected parts of the fashion industry in its present form, it led me to voice other emotions, support and expand my awareness and talent while struggling in a very capitalistically dominant scene. The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express”
Strongly involved with music, as a bold and fierce romantic, a paradoxical blend of fragility and strength opened her voice in the underground music industry as a music producer, lead vocalist and bassist for the band Velvet Kills, a Synth-Glam-Punk duo.
In 2017 they featured a double release of the album titled ‘Mischievous Urges’ with Unknown Pleasures Records and Oráculo Records. MU was considered by Radio Radar one of the best albums of 2017 in Portugal.
In early 2020, before the world lockdown Velvet Kills released the album ‘Bodhi Labyrinth’ alongside the labels Icy Cold Records, Manic Depression Records and Unknown Pleasures Records, premiering the music video “Bitch Face” produced by Art Mistake and directed by Alan Deprez followed by “In The Gold Mine” directed by Fotoplasta and Art Mistake.
In 2021 Velvet Kills released BL Re-Imagine, featuring remixes from Bjoerlin, Lola Zaza, Anyer Quantum and Chris Shape and later on the album Honoris II, a Tribute to Sisters of Mercy and Sisterhood with the track ‘Blood Money’ released with UPR (CD).
“Awakening the labyrinth of our minds to be freed from hate, greed and ego this album brings us to the reality of our actual society.
The messages come coded in Sarcasm, Euphemism, hyperbole and Irony digging into the files of a lonely civilisation and question the purpose of life vs government structures, where we ‘Cash and Move’ and love is forgotten.
Inside the ‘Noise’ of the apocalyptic war, a ‘Hangover Calling’ to the universe to rise humans to a higher state of positive vibration. ‘The Key’ is Love.”
‘Bodhi Labyrinth’
Su Eko joins forces in a collaboration with the music producer Chris Shape as vocalist and songwriter. The duo started working together in early 2020 releasing the track ʻCrisesʼ in the Shape to Deform (UPR and AREA Z).
The track ʻBela Lugosiʼs is Deadʼ (Tribute to Bauhaus) was featured in 2022 with Honoris III, released on UPR, Soil Records and Industrial Complexx and released simultaneously with the music video that has already reached over 100.000 views on youtube. The reviews were very enthusiastic from all Bauhaus fans and electronic music lovers.
Later the same year Chris Shape and Su Eko released a new single, “Beware the Dog” a brutal EBM/Electro weapon, on target for the club featured in Miséria Records. Their new EP Parallel Visions is set to be released in the fall of 2024 on Aufnahme + Wiedergabe alongside with the music video “Nada”, the 1st track of the album.
Su Eko also collaborated as vocalist and songwriter on the albuns of Chemical Waves – Stories From The World Before “Rangers on the Road” (Wave Records 2021), Victor Torpedo – Zoom “Cleopatra” (Lux Records 2023), Tom Wax & Rummy Sharma – “Are you Dreaming” (Blufin Records 2023) and Suffering for Kisses – Some Hurt More Than Others – “Culture” (2020).
Under the veil of Art Mistake, Su Eko directed, produced and edited Velvet Kills’s music videos “Faster Speed Faster”,“Shadow Play”, “Rain” and the animation “Fill Me Out”, selected by the MUVI (International Film Festival) and later “In the Gold Mine” , “Bela Lugosiʼs is Dead” and “Nada” with the D.O.P Fotoplasta.
She is also the producer and co-writer of Velvet Kills music videos “Bitch Face” (directed by Alan Deprez, D.O.P. Nicolaos Zafiriou, camera David Patel) and “Red Shoes” directed by Ron Goldstein and camera operator and video editor for the “Making Off” of Berenice’s clothing campaign, collaborationg simultanouslly as make up artist in the projects.
“Working for many years behind the scenes of major productions, gave me the chance to learned from the artists and creatives I crossed paths with. It opened my mind to try new art forms, and consequently caused me to develop new desires and skills.”
Along her odyssey Su Eko immersed in a discovery inside the world of graphic design and branding, having tuitions of Julian Montague and Michael Johnson.
She collaborated as beauty editor for Chicote magazine and art director and content manager of Velvet Kills.
Art Mistake is a platform created to bring her skills together, providing audio and image services (art direction, makeup artist, audio/video (direction, production, editon) and voice over.
Su Eko is now based in Lisbon where she continues to expand as an multidisciplinary artist and performer.
Backstage Velvet Kills “Bitch Face”- Music Video
Photo: Flávio Andrade
Su Eko’s performance in Art Attack
Photo: Fotoplasta
“Art and music have been my biggest influences and the places where I’ve formed my deepest friendships”
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