Luca Campestri explores the idea of home through memory, nomadism, and everyday gestures

A tent assembled and dismantled, everyday objects turned into traces of memory, images that slow down the act of looking: in his new exhibition, Luca Campestri reflects on the idea of home as a mobile, fragile condition in constant transformation. The artist constructs a narrative that intertwines sculpture, photography, and installation to investigate the subtle gestures and emotional tensions that define the experience of inhabiting a space. At the center of the research is the tent, a symbol of temporary and nomadic shelter, continuously rebuilt and abandoned. Within this framework, even the simplest actions acquire symbolic weight: a set of camping cutlery engraved with the phrase “I need to remember to water the plants” transforms a domestic reminder into a meditation on care and everyday responsibility. The project also unfolds through VD0725 (Visual Diary July 2025), a series of photographic diptychs that juxtapose fragments of daily life and formal correspondences, inviting viewers to observe reality with greater slowness. Alongside these works, Like Velvety Scars appears as a fabric piece whose velvet fibers retain the imprint of touch, evoking how memory and growth leave subtle yet persistent marks. The exhibition culminates in an installation that plays with reflective surfaces and shifting light, recalling the nocturnal sensitivity of an owl’s gaze and placing the viewer in an ambiguous state between dream and wakefulness. Within this liminal space, Campestri turns the exhibition into a site of quiet introspection.