Lucca Cora Suess Artist Portfolio

Predominantly working with materials marked by prior function and cultural significance, Lucca Cora Suess approaches objects as artefacts that connect us to specific times and places. Each object imposes a series of associations, be it through its shape, materiality, or provenance. Some are wild or domesticated, others may carry a sense of gender, linking them to ideas of masculinity or femininity. Each object tells a story and evokes distant memories. Through the process of cutting, welding, sewing and stitching, Suess can intervene in their existing structures, and overrule the way we regard them. Even go as far as destabilising their categorisation, leaving them in a state of ambiguity to their beholder, forcing them into in-between states.' „Hearken unto me, fellow creatures. I who have dwelt in a form unmatched with my desire, I whose flesh has become an assemblage of incongruous anatomical parts, I who achieve the similitude of a natural body only through an unnatural process, I offer you this warning: the Nature you bedevil me with is a lie. Do not trust it to protect you from what I represent, for it is a fabrication that cloaks the groundlessness of the privilege you seek to maintain for yourself at my expense. You are as constructed as me“ - Susan Stryker