In my artistic practice, I am interested in thinking of the body besieged by its sociocultural context as a field from which to observe or fantasize about the aftermath. I begin by observing human behavior and asking how we construct meaning in the face of uncertainty and transformation.
My experience in theater, scenography, dance, and exhibition installation deeply shapes the way I work: each project is conceived as a situation in which body, image, and space mutually affect one another. I draw on these tools when I begin developing a new project, and although I often start from painting, the works tend to expand into other languages and disciplines.
In my work, intimacy, desire, memory, erosion, and that which usually remains hidden or naturalized frequently emerge. I am interested in placing these experiences under tension through irony and in exploring the intersection between the poetic and the uncomfortable.
I seek for the works to function as spaces of questioning rather than spaces of answers; places where an image may reveal something about the way we look, desire, inhabit, and survive in the world.
— Luciano Lomastro
