Luca Luce Bosani (b. 1990, they/he) is a multimedia artist working with sculpture, painting, installation and performance. Bosani’s practice explores identity, dismantling gender binaries and challenging systems of categorisation, discrimination, and power. Through immersive environments, wearable artworks and character-building, they interrogate normative constructions of gender, critique toxic masculinity, and present queer and gender-non-conforming ways of being.

Since 2017, Bosani has developed the ongoing body of work UPOs: Unidentified Performing Objects, queer artworks that resist categorisation, existing between sculpture and shoe, painting and garment, object of contemplation and performative device. Activated through live performance, the UPOs reject fixed definitions and propose fluid and inclusive ways of inhabiting space and identity. Bosani’s residency at the V&A Museum in 2024 marked a significant expansion of this practice. Through large-scale performances presented in the South Kensington galleries, the UPOs functioned as portals to access alternative mental and physical states, channelling transformation, vulnerability, healing, and ecstatic transcendence.

The residency also enabled Bosani to reconnect with their family’s shoemaking heritage. Inspired by their grandfather, a shoemaker, they began exploring traditional shoemaking and woodcarving techniques, introducing these crafts into new sculptural works. By combining artisanal knowledge with unconventional forms and materials, Bosani honours and subverts tradition, producing a critical response to the rigid ideals of masculinity they experienced growing up as a gender-non-conforming person in a small town in northern Italy. In 2025, the V&A residency culminated in a major year-long exhibition, bringing together the artist’s drawings, Mini and Wearable UPOs, an artist film, and a performance film.

Collaboration and participation are central to Bosani’s practice. The UPOs are conceived not only as static artworks but as catalysts for encounter, transformation, and collective experience. Through performance and live activation, they become practical and conceptual tools that foster visibility, diversity and representation for LGBTQIA+ and neurodivergent communities, creating safe spaces for critical reflection, care, and resistance.