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.
Staccioli divorces from their original context elements such as toilet papers, stereotyped images of flowers, office chairs wheels, bells, knobs and handles, fixings, frame clips, shopping carts and other objecthoods drawn from consumerism, domesticity and urban environments. They are studied in their materiality and in their relation to bodies, architecture and landscape. His practice stems from the investigation of the post-functional life of things to deconstruct the boundaries of existing categories.
Staccioli’s work tries to materialise the invisible negotiations that happen daily between bodies and their architectural surroundings. It examines how daily objects can act as active witnesses of routine, time, embodying power structures, affective memories, forms of labour that are continuous and internalised. It defuses imposed performativity, exploring the negation of usability as a form of protest.
In his visual grammar, Staccioli de-functionalizes images, objects, consumer products and tech items: he uses them either as found objects, or focuses on their shapes, 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. He employs those elements as matrices to generate new forms and constellations of meanings and residual ecologies.
This processuality, based on conceptual deconstruction and nonlinear re-composition, is meant as a political act of re-imagination and decolonization of everyday life.