Luca Staccioli’s multidisciplinary practice is research-based and process-oriented, merging sculptures, photos, videos, sounds, drawings, and collages.
His hybrid works investigate the post-functional life of things, defusing imposed performativities and exploring the negation of usability as a form of protest.
In his visual grammar, Staccioli draws from the universe of mass-produced, low-cost, popular, daily consumer items, explored through a process of defunctionalization. Images and objecthoods are either used as found objects, or reproduced and multiplied; they are transformed through alterations in their scale and materials, or by means of stratification and juxtaposition. His works give 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.
Through his works, Staccioli investigates 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 and the disciplining of body and subjectivities — both human and non-human.