Luca Poncetta
Luca Poncetta (1980, Italy) lives and works in Bologna. His background in astronomy and his long involvement with the theatre collective Sineglossa shaped an approach centred on marginal entities, peripheral gestures, and structures that sit at the edges of visibility. His work develops from everyday forms of labour, including gardening, and focuses on materials and situations that require attention, care, and micro-adjustment. Through essential sculptural configurations, he observes how small gestures regulate
relationships and states of tension.
Poncetta has presented solo exhibitions such as Cracks (A+B Gallery, Brescia, 2024) and Koh-Ring Falls (Laundromat Bolle Blu, Bologna, 2024), alongside earlier projects including The Blazing Sharer (Ponte Sanguinario, Spoleto, 2022). His installations often inhabit liminal or transitional architectures, forming precise low-volume environments where materials, supports, and minimal interventions define a quiet yet insistent vocabulary grounded in maintenance, sensitivity, and peripheral presence.
A+B Gallery solo show:
Luca Poncetta’s work unfolds as a sculptural investigation attentive to processes of emotional regulation and to relationships of pressure between the individual and the environment. His practice emerges from direct experience of manual labor—particularly gardening—understood as a space of slow repetition, micro-gestures, and unstable balances. Within this framework, matter is built through accumulation and minimal contact, often via minute units that aggregate, respond to imperceptible variations, and evoke dynamics of swarming, adaptation, and survival. Craftsmanship thus becomes a form of embodied knowledge, capable of translating states of anxiety, tension, and concentration into sensitive structures.