Suzanna Scott "Laissez Faire 3"

North American artist, Suzanna Scott, simultaneously seduces and repulses the viewer through her excessive use of sutured stitching, skin-like surfaces, witty references to various body parts, and shades of the color pink. She gravitates towards sculpting in multiples using everyday materials and discarded objects.
By embracing repetition as a tool throughout her work, Scott emphasizes the ever/never evolving social struggles we face at the intersection of existence within our body and society. She uses her work to step into and examine the sticky landscape surrounding gender, sexuality, equality, and bodily autonomy.
Scott’s work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally in Chile, Malta, Spain, Russia, Germany, France and Mexico. She lives in Ruston, Louisiana where she rage-stitches daily in her garage studio.

“LAISSEZ-FAIRE” We live in a country of binaries and biases, where the gun is seen as a sacred emblem of power and citizens are granted the carte blanche entitlement to bear arms. With the issues of reproductive healthcare and gun safety under constant debate, our rights to autonomy and privacy are unequally protected through warped scales of justice. The French term laissez-faire means “allow to do” and "a policy of minimum governmental interference in the economic affairs of individuals and society.” In this era of hyper-polarization, these toy guns represent the political interplay of our rights and existence. They speak to the value of human life, how we choose to assign value as a society and the hypocrisy that is at play in the actions of our elected officials. Soon after Roe was overturned, a tweet I saw spawned this series of guns and ovaries. It said something to the effect of: “Hey ladies, let’s just shove some automatic rifles up our twats and we’ll have nothing to worry about.” - Suzanna Scott

Learn more about her artwork and exhibitions on our website.