Lovay Fine Arts is delighted to announce its participation in Paris Internationale 2024 with Suzanne Santoro (Brooklyn, * 1946). This will be our first exhibition with the artist, and we’ll present two never-seen-before series Santoro created between 2004 and 2012.

Known since the early 1970s for her influential series Black Mirrors, she has dedicated her life to the poetics and the politics of a female gaze on women.

Blood Roses (2004-2009) and Femaleness (2006-2012), the two series of paintings on paper we are presenting, are part of a larger body of work that Santoro started in the 1990s. They were made through the repetition of motifs and gestures that are related to the origin of painting and that Santoro calls organic gesture, a movement starting as an impulse from the body, through the arm, and towards the paper.