Lucca Süss is an artist living and working in Zurich. Süss' studied in Monster Chetwynd's class and graduated in 2023.
Transformation lies at the centre of my sculptural practice, both materially and symbolically. I work with found objects sourced from thrift stores, secondhand shops, and digital marketplaces, materials marked by prior function and cultural significance. Through processes such as melting, welding, sewing, or bending, I dismantle and reconfigure these objects, stripping them of their original utility to recode their meaning. What was once functional becomes a hybrid sculptural body that subverts and reimagines normative structures.
My approach to materiality is rooted in a queer and trans perspective. The transformation of objects not originally intended for me, designed to serve the aesthetics and needs of normative bodies, is a personal and political gesture. These acts of appropriation and reconstruction mirror the nonlinear experience of transition, where identity, material, and body continuously reshape one another. I am interested in the instability of forms, in the way materials can become fluid, fragmented, or defiant.
Sculptures remain in flux, inhabiting a space of ongoing becoming. Influenced by thinkers like Susan Stryker, I reclaim the notion of monstrosity as a form of resistance, a refusal of fixed categorisation and a challenge to dominant narratives of what is considered natural or coherent. My work invites viewers to engage with alternative embodiments and to see transformation not as deviation but as a generative and empowering state.
