Key Works

Suzy Lake’s artworks reflect her lifelong interest in challenging the limitations of representation and questioning what is possible when an artist creates an image. Using cameras and, most often, her own body as the subject, Lake pushes the photographic medium to explore the relationship between art and its viewers and, through performance and the manipulation of physical photographs, issues of identity and gender, control, and resistance. She has tried to reveal how lenses shape the world and how the particular characteristics of the camera alter our understanding of the images they produce.