Luca Bosani

Unidentified Performing Objects

2024, Performance (30 min), repeated twice,  Friday Late,  Victoria & Albert Museum, Raphael Court, London, UK

Unidentified Performing Objects is the closing performance of Bosani’s residency at the Victoria & Albert Museum. Funded by Adobe Foundation and produced by the V&A Friday Late team and Residency team.

During the live work, Bosani’s fluid artworks, the Unidentified Performing Objects are activated. Wearing them, gradually, from the lowest in height (7.5 cm) to the tallest (205 cm) the performers invite the audience to reflect on sculpture and fashion, gender and identity.

When does a shoe become a sculpture?

What does masculine mean?

Who gets to wear heels?

Challenging gender norms and stereotypes, the performance presents fluid, ever-changing identities: the performers’ faces behind a veil, their bodies styled with genderless garments, their feet inside the artworks. Rising above, equally powerful and fragile.

Funded by V&A Museum x Adobe Foundation as part of the Adobe Creative Residency 2024.

with: Conn Williams, Luca Bosani, Rafael Escardo, CJ Calderwood, Rebecca Solomon.

additional costume: lambdog1066.

Photography: Peter Kelleher, Mitko Karakolev.

Videography: Marco Carini.