Luca Bosani

For LDF25, Luca Bosani, V&A Museum, 2024 artist-in-residence, has created a limited edition of ‘STOKEY’ hand-painted caps, celebrating the local area where Know & Love is based. In addition to that, at the centre of the shop and on the street window, there will be on display larger ‘Unidentified Performing Objects’, artworks that exist in the liminal space between shoes and sculptures, fashion designs and objects of contemplation. As part of LDF25, Bosani will also bring to Stoke Newington a selection of smaller collectable artworks: painted custom caps, miniature sculptures ‘Mini UPOs’, and paintings on paper. The artworks will be on view and for sale between the 12th and 21st of September at Know & Love, 176 Stoke Newington Church St, London N16 0JL, with a private launch event on the 12th September, 6-9 pm, where there will be a chance to meet the artist and the Know & Love team. About the artist Luca Bosani (b. 1990; they/he) is a multimedia artist whose practice combines sculpture, fashion, and performance to question and challenge traditional gender roles. Throughout 2024, they have been the Victoria & Museum x Adobe artist-in-residence, where they researched the history of heels and platform shoes. In December 2024, their research culminated in a post-gender installation featuring nine sculptural shoes and a large-scale performance are currently on view in the V&A South Kensington Museum's main galleries. In 2017, during their Contemporary Art Practice (Performance) MA at the Royal College of Art, disappointed and constrained by existing gender and artistic categorisation, Bosani conceived the concept of ‘UPOs’: Unidentified Performing Objects, artworks that reject categorisation and sit in between definitions (shoes/ sculptures – garments/paintings); ever-changing, fluid and queer, they aim to transform both the wearer and the viewer. In this non-coded, non-binary, non-prescriptive space, Bosani’s creativity grows and flourishes. Collaboration and group performances are at the core of Bosani’s practice, and their ‘UPOs’ are practical and conceptual tools for gender non-conforming individuals (LGBTQI+), neurodivergent communities and young people to feel seen, heard, included and supported. More info and sale inquiries: www.lucabosani.com