Luca Luce Bosani (b. 1990, they/he) is a multimedia artist working with sculpture, painting, installation and performance.

Bosani’s practice explores identity while dismantling gender binaries and challenging systems of categorisation, discrimination, and power. Through immersive environments, wearable sculpture, performance, and character-building, they interrogate normative constructions of gender, expose structures of violence, and critically examine toxic masculinity while affirming queer and gender non-conforming ways of being.

Since 2017, Bosani has developed the ongoing body of work ‘UPOs: Unidentified Performing Objects’, queer sculptural forms that deliberately evade categorisation, existing between garment and sculpture, object and body, performance and identity. Activated through live performance, the ‘UPOs’ reject fixed definitions and propose fluid, embodied ways of inhabiting identity and space.

Bosani’s residency at the V&A Museum marked a significant expansion of this practice. Through performances staged in the museum’s galleries, they brought the UPOs to life while embracing a more experimental methodology that foregrounds process, transformation, and making. 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 inherited artisanal knowledge with unconventional forms, colours, and materials, Bosani simultaneously 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.

Collaboration and participation are central to Bosani’s practice. The ‘UPOs’ are conceived not as static objects but as catalysts for encounter, transformation, and collective experience. Through performance and live activation, they become practical and conceptual tools that foster visibility, representation, and belonging for LGBTQIA+ communities, while creating open-ended spaces for critical reflection, care, and resistance.