A photographic narrative centered on a series of performative banquets conceived by Luca Trevisani across France, Switzerland, and Croatia in 2025, unfolding through the activation of a group of stoneware sculptures developed from a research process focused on the Toirano Caves.
The works emerge from an investigation into the Ligurian karst caves, which preserve human and animal footprints dating back approximately 15,000 years. These traces reveal forms of interspecies cohabitation, thresholds of contact, and processes of mutual biological and behavioral transformation. The sculptures take on porous, tactile forms that incorporate organic residues and food, evoking processes of sedimentation and rituality. Activated through the banquets, they function as relational devices around which gestures, materials, and acts of consumption are collectively shared.
Winner of the 13th edition of the Italian Council (2024), the project has evolved through a series of performative presentations in various international contexts—from FRAC Corsica to the Académie Internationale de la Céramique in Geneva, from the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb to Palazzo Ducale in Genoa—before being presented at Casa Museo Jorn in Albissola Marina, in dialogue with the place where
Asger Jorn theorized the fusion of architecture, nature, and art. The series will ultimately enter the collection of Museo Madre in Naples.
Luca Trevisani (born 1979 in Verona) is a multidisciplinary artist whose research ranges between sculpture and video, and crosses borderline disciplines such as performing arts, graphics, design, experimental cinema and architecture, in a perpetual magnetic and mutant condition. In his works the historical characteristics of sculpture are questioned or even subverted, in an incessant investigation of matter and its narratives. Trevisani's research is that of an explorer: a freethinker who studies the most diverse and eclectic forms of plastic language with curiosity—but also with detachment – acting on them from the inside although never aspiring to possess them definitively, instead seeking to reveal (and, if possible, to modify) their microphysics. Above all, conserving absolute passion for the practical and social utility of his work and for the great questions that it cultivates: perhaps the real significance of someone who conducts artistic research with authority.
His works have been exhibited in museums and institutions throughout the world. He has published several books, and directed the science-fiction documentary film
Glaucocamaleo (2012). He has written texts and essays on the works of artists such as
Francesco Lo Savio,
Luca Vitone, Giovanni Anceschi, Gianni Colombo,
Liam Gillick, and Mark Manders. He teaches at IUAV in Venice, at the Free University of Bolzano, and at NABA in Milan.
