The Kit eliminacoda multifunzione series originates from the snail-shaped ticket dispenser for queue elimination systems of the supermarket deli counter or waiting rooms. The form of the sculptures, both vegetal and anthropic at the same time, is created starting from a cast of the ticket dispenser snail, a common object, sometimes obsolete, then reproduced in glazed ceramic. The ticket dispenser snail, an object with a precise organizational function, undergoes a process of transformation and de-functionalization, its sculptural potential explored as a political act of reimagination. The germinative rebirth of these everyday objects prompts us to consider possible ecologies that hybridize cultural and biological boundaries. The new forms, both living and mechanical, explore the relationship between body, objects, and landscape.

« [...] Luca Staccioli has a knack for encapsulating in his sculptures the ambiguity of certain devices that appear to seamlessly integrate into our everyday surroundings as solutions, yet, in reality, stem from profit-driven motives. These are ordinary objects that blend into our familiar landscape, yet are simultaneously highly artificial, resulting from careful, albeit sometimes detached, observation of social contexts constructed under consumerist principles. [...] By extracting these objects from their contexts and exaggerating their forms and colors, Luca Staccioli renders them vulnerable, tender, and sometimes humorous to the observer’s eye. It’s as if they are suddenly liberated and appear in a different guise: fused together in a dystopian and surreal environment, yet devoid of preconceived functionality. [...]Like the agave that reaches its pinnacle with its bloom only to fade, Luca Staccioli’s subjects appear to be experiencing their moment of greatest glory, with an uncertain future, perhaps, but finally liberated to explore heights and configurations previously unattainable to them. » La familiarità dell’artificio, Alberta Romano, 2024