Luca Staccioli’s multidisciplinary practice is research-based and process-oriented, merging sculptures, photos, videos, sounds, drawings, and collages.
Staccioli’s hybrid works investigate the sculptural and pictorial dimension of the everyday, observing how familiar, decorative and ubiquitous images, as well as everyday functional objects, are implicated in the entanglement of economic efficiency and consumption, value production and precarity, and in the domestication of landscape, body and subjectivities — both human and non-human.
His practice stems from the investigation of the post-functional life of things to deconstruct the boundaries of existing categories. It defuses imposed performativity, exploring the negation of usability as a form of protest.
In his visual grammar, Staccioli de-functionalizes images, consumer products and objecthoods drawn from domestic and urban environments. He uses them either as found objects, or reproducing and multiplying them; he transforms them by altering their scale and materials, or by means of stratification and juxtaposition. He gives space to traces of time, weariness and errors.
This processuality, based on conceptual deconstruction and nonlinear re-composition, is meant as a political act of re-imagination and decolonization of everyday life.