As part of the curatorial programming of exhibition Fragile Archives, Affective Ties, artists Seda Hepsev and Lucca Cora Süss will reflect on monstrosity as a material and symbolic language of transformation—one that reclaims vulnerability, abundance, and repair as acts of resistance and flourishing.
Within the exhibition, drawing on Elizabeth Fisher’s Carrier Bag Theory of Evolution, Hepsev reimagines the forgotten role of women’s labour in carrying, gathering, and storing as the earliest forms of invention. Her woven figures—assembled from scrap fabrics and yarn—transform what is dismissed as residual or impure into vessels of collective memory. Through her monstrous bodies, she unsettles patriarchal narratives of progress, and makes visible the importance of care, interdependence, and embodied multiplicities.
For Lucca Cora Süss, monstrosity unfolds through the tactile labour of stitching leaving visible scars as symbols of transformation. Drawing on Susan Stryker’s writing on the trans body as “constructed, objectified, yet powerfully resistant,” she reclaims the monstrosity as a queer methodology: a way of inhabiting contradiction and exposing the illusion of normativity. Her sculptures—stitched from dismantled biker gloves—shift between armour and tenderness, violation and repair, vitality and flux. Together, Hepsev and Süss will open a dialogue around material labour, feminist, queer and trans embodiment, and the monstrosity as a site of becoming.
Moderated by Elif Carrier.
📅Sat 18.10.2025
14:15 — Tour with the exhibition curator Elif Carrier
15:00 — Artist Talk with Seda Hepsev and Lucca Cora Süss
📍FOMO Art Space, Enzianweg 4, Zurich
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Graphic Design by Lara Sutter
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Photo 2: Lucca Cora Süss, Biker Series, 2025. Exhibition installation shot.
Photo 3: Seda Hepsev, Long Tong, Old Song, 2025. Exhibition installation shot.
Photos by Anna Maysuk
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