V&A Museum x Adobe Artist in Residence
V&A Museum South Kensington, Learning Centre, Studio 2
he/they
Luca Bosani (b.1990; they/them, he/him) is a multimedia artist who specialises in wearable art and performance. They are the Victoria & Museum x Adobe artist-in-residence in Costume Design, where they are researching the history of heels and platform shoes. In 2025 their research will culminate in a post-gender interactive installation and series of performances that will be on view in the South Kensington Museum main galleries.
In 2017 – during their Performance MA at the Royal College of Art – disappointed and constrained by existing gender and artistic categorisation Luca created the concept of UPOs: Unidentified Performing Objects, wearable artworks that reject categorisation and sit in between definitions; ever-changing, fluid and queer they aim to transform both the wearer and the viewer. In this non-coded, non-binary and non-prescriptive space, their creativity now grows and flourishes.
Collaboration and coral group performances are at the core of Luca’s practice, and their UPOs are practical and conceptual tools for gender non-conforming individuals, neurodivergent communities and young people to feel seen, heard, included and supported.
TLSB Private Investigations & Conundrums
As a neurodivergent and gender-non-conforming artist, starting in 2020, Luca developed a semi-fictional identity as TLSB private investigator & UPO specialist.
Taking the cinematographic stereotype of the private investigator (e.g. Humphrey Bogart as Philip Marlowe), Luca dismantles this hyper-masculine identity to introduce a queer private investigator in drag.
As a private investigator in drag, Luca works for an imaginary company (TLSB), compiles regular Reports for them, wears uniforms daily (currently a red outfit), works with talented colleagues (detectives, artists, musicians) and is busy trying to solve intricate conundrums.
Operating through live investigations, Luca’s practice is in an open conversation with the history of fashion, sculpture and performance, bringing an innovative and experimental contribution to the mediums.
2024
Presenting the Adobe Creative Residents at the V&A Adobe, ENG
2023
On Queerness with Antoine Schafroth, Hypha Studios, London, ENG
Queer Pandèmia Edizioni TLON, TMW Factory, Milan, ITA-ENG
Wandsworth Arts & Culture, Wandsworth Council, London, ENG
2022
Rovesciare gli arcobaleni si può, La Repubblica, by Olga Gambari, ITA
Reports on Behalf of TLSB HOAX Publication, ENG
Artist Interview: Luca Bosani Fern & Glade, London, ENG
El arte del futbol Revista Crack Style, Mexico, SPA
2021
C0039 in conversation with Wilko Austermann, Quartier Am Hafen, Cologne, ENG
Carlo Sala ed Elisa Carollo in conversazione con Luca Bosani BRODO promoted by Piattaforma Lago, Fondazione Fabbri, Treviso Ricerca Arte, ITA
From the margins FAD Magazine, by Paul Carey-Kent, ENG
Transition: Shirley Temple takes on the US capitol Lampooon Magazine, ENG
Art, Sculpture, Performance and Fashion: Luca Calu Bosani Wait! Fashion, ENG
Interview with Federico Esposito Time travel, ENG
Luca Bosani: C0037- A Gleam in the Fog Art Verge, ENG
2020
Archive: Luca Bosani Contemporary Attitude, ENG
Absinthe: Artists’ muse of the past and mythological creature of today by Elina Baumikhanova, ENG
Gli artisti Under 35 da tener d’occhio Man In Town, by Lorenzo Sabatini, ITA
Autointerview, MetodoMilano, ITA
I (never) explain #91: Luca Bosani ATP Diary, ITA-ENG
Luna Piena, Tzvetnik, ENG
Featured artist, Azzurro3, ENG
Luna Piena at Residenza La Fornace, Daily Lazy, ENG
Q&A: Luca Bosani The Global F.C. ENG
Luca Bosani: More Than Shoes Los Gatos, by Aidha Badr, ENG
Performing Objects: Luca Bosani for Platforms Projects interview with Sepersepuluh Jakarta, ENG
Off topic: Luca Bosani sulla mascolinità e le dinamiche di genere Forme Uniche & ArtsLife, by Gianluca Gramolazzi, ITA
Fucked Up Objects Mousse Magazine, by Marie De Brugerolle, ENG
2019
Issue 2, Rung Magazine, ENG
Luca Bosani: Q-Rated Performance La Quadriennale di Roma, ITA
Absinthe, Coeval Magazine, by Lara Monro, ENG
Absinthe: Luca Bosani interview with Hector Campbell, ENG