Luca Bosani (b.1990; they/he) is a multimedia artist who, through sculpture, painting and performance, explores and challenges gender roles. Throughout 2024, they have been the Victoria & Museum x Adobe artist-in-residence, where they have been researching 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 currently on view in the V&A South Kensington Museum 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, Luca 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 now 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.