We present 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.

Suzanne Santoro was born in Brooklyn in 1946, graduated from the School of Visual Arts, New York and currently lives in Italy. Santoro’s artistic practice has been a rich journey into the realm of female representation and its hidden structures. Informed by her decades of study, she reflects on the partial erasure of women throughout Western art history. In the late 1960s she moved from New York to Italy where she joined the feminist group Rivolta Femminile, alongside Carla Lonzi (1931-1982) and Carla Accardi (1924-2014).
In 2024 Lovay Fine Arts started a series of exhibitions in art fairs and galleries: Paris Internationale, Paris; Lovay Fine Arts, Geneva; Conceptual Fine Arts, Milano; and Liste Basel. In 2024 Santoro collaborated with the duo Claire Fontaine for a large-scale installation for the Dior Fall 2024 runway show at the Brooklyn Museum.