Luca Staccioli

Falling Flowers (inerti) unfolds from decorative patterns printed on toilet paper: floral motifs, mass-produced and ubiquitous, designed to aestheticise a consumable object and naturalise its disposal. Joyful, worn, conventional — images that perform nature while belonging entirely to packaging and commercial logics.

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The series treats these images as a pictorial field. The toilet paper and its blossoms — used as pigment — are stratified on concrete moulds cast from empty boxes, through a personalized process drawn from fresco technique, tearing, and glazing. Screws, wall plugs and fastening elements appear across the surfaces, functioning simultaneously as compositional elements and as mechanical grafts onto botanical forms.

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The term Inerti designates matter that does not react, that resists. The term is held against the images it names: decorative motifs produced for instant consumption, persisting as surface and skin of new bodies  — suspended fragments of architectures. What aestheticises the disposable accumulates as residue: the management of comfort, the aestheticisation of necessity, the slow sedimentation of images and their value systems, designed to circulate and disappear.