Luca Bosani (b.1990, Italy, he/they) is a multimedia artist working across sculpture, painting, fashion, and performance. Their practice interrogates systems of power, identity, and representation, with a particular focus on how bodies are shaped, controlled, and politicised through visual and cultural codes. Through wearable sculptures, performative actions and painting, Bosani challenges dominant structures such as gender binaries, militarised aesthetics, and authoritarian forms of display.

In 2024, Bosani was the Victoria & Albert Museum’s artist-in-residence (funded by Adobe Foundation), where they researched the history of heels and platform shoes as tools of status, power, and identity construction. The project culminated in a post-gender installation of nine sculptural shoes and a large-scale performance, on view between December 2024 and November 2025 in the V&A South Kensington Museum’s main galleries.

During their MA in Contemporary Art Practice (Performance) at the Royal College of Art in London (2015-2017), Bosani developed the concept of ‘UPOs: Unidentified Performing Objects’. Emerging from a rejection of rigid artistic and gender classifications, ‘UPOs’ exist between categories, garment and sculpture, object and body, painting and action. Fluid, mutable, and intentionally slippery, they resist fixed meaning and instead propose alternative, non-binary ways of inhabiting and understanding the body and identity.

Since 2020, Bosani has also developed TLSB Private Investigations & Conundrums, a semi-fictional framework in which they inhabit a queer private investigator character and a ‘UPOs’ specialist. Drawing on and subverting the hyper-masculine stereotype of the detective, this ongoing body of work unfolds through investigations, uniforms, and performative reports, blending fiction and reality while expanding the practice into a continuous, live embodied inquiry.

Collaboration and collective activation are pivotal to Bosani’s practice. Their work often involves performers and participants, using ‘UPOs’ as both practical and conceptual tools to support gender non-conforming individuals, LGBTQI+ communities, neurodivergent people, and young participants. By creating artworks and spaces that are inclusive and open-ended, Bosani’s practice fosters visibility, critical reflection, and embodied forms of resistance.