Luca Staccioli

 

A series of scaffolding pipes houses found knobs, handles, lamps, handheld elements from workspaces, domestic and architectural environments. Removed from their original function, these fragments become sculptural forms, traces of habitual gestures: surfaces that carry the memory of micro-acts of negotiation between the body, the work-time, the tool, and the environment.

The project aims to examine how daily objects can act as active witnesses of routine, time, embodying power structures, affective memories, forms of labour that are continuous and internalised. How objects can host, or discipline bodies.

The sculpture thus takes shape as a spatial notation of the everyday, a score that translates the invisible repetition of gestures and the body into a compositional and sculptural grammar.

At the same time, the work presents itself as a section of landscape or a core sample, where the industrial, the domestic, and the organic coexist within a hybrid topography. Presence and absence, gestures and structures, emerge; a diagram of relationships normally imperceptible, in which the threshold becomes a site of contact, and dwelling reveals itself as a continuous crossing of surfaces.

The sculptural series is modular, conceived to be displayed in varying forms, in dialogue with the exhibition space.