Luciano Lomastro

VLIV Lab - Mar del Plata

I work at the intersection of image, text, body, and space. Chaos amuses me.
My practice is interdisciplinary, visual, and narrative—but deeply human. I observe what we do, what we feel, what we choose. I'm interested in how we are—in intimacy and in society—and how we inhabit this world on the edge.

I collect gestures, stories, silences. I work with what happens to me and with what I overhear. I think of each piece as a way of organizing what moves through us: desire, fear, memory, the future.

Every image I create begins with a story I tell myself. I fantasize, I invent worlds, I sketch out possible and impossible scenarios. I like to build universes. Each project becomes its own narrative territory, a small fiction loaded with symbols, bodies, and codes.

I’m drawn to beauty, but not as relief—I seek it where it unsettles.
I aim to provoke. To spark friction, tension. I want something to shift.
I’m interested in the immediate, the raw, the imperfect. The unfiltered. The uncomfortable. What shouldn’t be there, but is. There's composition in those zones too. Something forms. Something speaks.

I work with images, bodies, and stage designs that transform—where human forms appear even when not entirely figurative. In projects like Seduzeme, I explore nudes as a secret, intimate, visual archive of a generation: images made to seduce but never shown.

I do performance, but I think it through. I'm interested in montage, in how meaning is built, in the materiality of emotion. My works don’t emerge from randomness—they're made of layers, symbols, and questions.

I’m also driven by the big questions: Where do we come from? Where are we going? What will remain of us? I see humanity not as something separate from nature, but as one of its mutant forms. I'm interested in the relationship between humans and their bodies, their pleasures, their ways of connecting. Sex as language. Chaos as narrative. Art as a document of what we are—or once were.

In everything I do, I look for a beauty that doesn’t decorate but resists.
An aesthetic as a trench.
A way of seeing that keeps us feeling.

Interdisciplinary Artist

He works with image, text, and space, exploring beauty as tension, and ugliness and chaos as a trench. His interests include bodies, narrative, visual politics, and the construction of ironic and political worlds. He creates images that provoke, unsettle, or seduce—like someone arranging ruins to form a new language.

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Luciano Lomastro

Interdisciplinary Artist