Luca Süss

Wildness in this work, sometimes functions as a synonym for queerness, but it is also a mode of being that lies outside of the systems of classification that nest human bodies into clear and non-overlapping categories. 

“Wildness names the potential of certain forms of desire to stray beyond the boundaries of family and home. Wildness offers an alternative history of sexuality within which the so-called natural world is neither the backdrop for human romance nor the guarantor of normativity. Wildness indeed seeks the unmaking of that world and represents its undoing.” – Jack Halberstam

The sculptures take uncomfortable objects up into themselves and make them their own. They situate them in a queer context and use their rough qualities against themselves. 

This practice of appropriating objects into a queer logic and also ridiculing them is something that is totally empowering. I take the things that I get excluded from all the time and own their aesthetic for my own aesthetic purposes. Ultimately, the material used in these works is treated like a mutating body, a body in transition, a body in change. This transition of material is comparable to that of trans people. Here, too, additional attributes lead to a change of perspective and to a “Gregor Samsa transformation” – a mutation that puts the body into the right context.