Lovay Gallery presents a solo exhibition of Suzanne Santoro’s historical works. The booth is built around one of her most significant series, the Mount of Venus (1971), a group of resin sculptures cast from her own body. On the wall, we show some of her iconic Black Mirrors (1972-1979), made from photographs taken by the artist, mounted on wood panels, and covered with resin and a polished mirror finish. Those thick and gloomy objects powerfully express the entire problematic of female representation in history: both overexploited and repressed. Santoro was interested in looking at the ways in which the female figure, and the sex in particular, had been hidden and stylized and therefore erased from representation. These early works embody Santoro’s life-long endeavor dedicated to the poetics and the politics of a female gaze on women.
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