Luca Staccioli’s multidisciplinary practice is research-based and process-oriented. It unfolds through sculpture, photography, video, drawing and collage.
He explores the post-functional life of things, investigating how familiar images, everyday objects, and gestures can escape the functions, usability, and performative demands imposed upon them. Through irony, errors and fragility, his works approach uselessness as a political space of refusal and transformation.
In his visual grammar, Staccioli builds on the sculptural and pictorial implications of mass-produced, low-cost, ubiquitous consumer items. Through acts of defunctionalization, multiplication, displacement and material translation, consumer goods, decorative motifs and devices designed for efficiency, control, circulation and productivity are detached from their operative logic, which begins to fray. Things enter states of suspension, becoming matrices for new bodies, opening spaces for a re-negotiation of daily patterns and choreographies.