LUCA SÜSS
SWITCHCRAFT,
OR KICKING THE GROUNDS AWAY
KALI LAB is a collaboration between KALI Gallery and the fashion store Paranoia, that offers young artists an innovative
exhibition space for contemporary art. The aim is to reflect
dynamic contexts, from art and society, while addressing the
viewer in an exceptional exhibition situation.
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Hugo Ciappi
Simone Filipo
Giulio Gallana
Florian Maritz
Shannon Zwicker
Felix Stöckle
Andrea Ricklin
Jason Rohr
Sebastian Haas
Maya Rochat
The young artist Luca Süss (*1998) shows a collection of sculptures from the latest series titled "Switchcraft, or kicking the grounds away".
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The nature of the queer body is one of the most important aspects of Luca Süss‘ practice. Luca uses everyday objects to create symmetrical structures that reference the queer body through symbolic meaning in materiality and similarities between sculpture and body. For this series, Luca takes inspiration from Maurice Sendak’s book „Where the Wild Things are„ in which an anti-community of wildness forms from bodies left outside of systems of classification and simplification. The use of faux-fur spanning across several works of this series alludes to said reference of wildness In Sendak‘s book.
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Luca graduated from the ZHDK in 2023 with a Bachelor in Fine Arts. In 2021 Luca was awarded the Niarchos Award for young art and has followed with several exhibitions throughout Switzerland since the beginning of the artistic career.
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Luca lives and works in Zurich (CH).
