LUCA STACCIOLI

Luca Staccioli (Imperia, 1988) explores the mutations affecting society, identity factors,possible hybridizations due to technology and the effects produced by the media, creating narratives where everyday objects take on new connotations. For the Cairo Prize, the artist created the work Studio per una protesta (flowers, prickly pears), consisting of brightly colored glazed ceramic sculptures made from replicated casts of common ticket dispensers found in supermarkets and waiting rooms, which take on the appearance of vegetables. These are totemic configurations that allude to consumerist phenomena and at the same time to transformations of the landscape. In addition, the artist metaphorically stages reproductive processes through the juxtaposition of a sculpture the height of the average Italian woman with a small one grafted onto clustered formations created with the casters of ergonomic office chairs. This is how the natural environment and human-normed places intersect, with the intention of leading “the viewer's body and gaze to relate in a new way to everyday objects and stereotypical images of Mediterranean landscapes recurring in souvenirs and advertising,” the artist explains. “To reflect on the coexistence of different species, allowing us to imagine new ecological perspectives.”