Luca Staccioli

A twitch of animal ears — bodily, nervous, almost mechanical details; familiar and ubiquitous image — emerges and merges with the demagnetized, flickering matter of a found VHS tape, on which glimpses of a family holiday were recorded years ago.
The damaged support, nearly unreadable in some parts, is digitized and processed by an artificial intelligence software. The tape, an organism altered by time, engages with the correction algorithm — a continuation of its analog alterations — generating errors, breathing, mutating.
The image does not represent; it behaves. Within the loop, the video matter turns into a painterly and unstable surface. The animal gesture and the tape’s glitch mirror each other, producing a tension between decay, algorithm, subject, memory, and regeneration. These elements merge into a single body — all at once actors and co-authors of the image — forming an involuntary micro-choreography.
The image thus becomes a minimal ecosystem, capable of generating both a new landscape and a new organism. The work explores an ecology of the image — where every support, body, or sign, as a residue of function, reactivates itself and comes alive.
The distorted sounds  — a loop of the original tape’s audio, some trumpet scales rehearsals, a pulsating remix created by the artist — act as devices of translation, rhythm and disorientation. The sculptural display, a found modified plywood furniture, creates a body, both familiar and unfamiliar.