About • Luca Bosani

V&A Museum x Adobe Artist in Residence

V&A Museum South Kensington, Learning Centre, Studio 2

CONTACT

luca.bosani.info@gmail.com

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.