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.
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 — residual ecologies, spaces where the post-functional lives of objects and images engage in continuous dialogue with the conditions of their surroundings.
This processuality, based on conceptual deconstruction and nonlinear re-composition, is meant as a political act of re-imagination and decolonization of everyday life.