Endosimbionti

What characterizes the practice of Luca Petti is his use of sculpture as a means to reflect on the living element and to imagine organisms that intertwine animal and vegetal components. This condition of interspecies hybridization—scientifically definable as endosymbiosis—gives rise to living beings that coexist in unpredictable configurations, as remnants of a past era or as entities inhabiting a dystopian, post-human future.

The artist comments: “With the title Endosymbionts, I refer to plant species that merge with elements from the animal kingdom, where predatory and instinctive characteristics—linked to defense and survival—coexist within a single body. That is, animals living within other animals, species existing inside other species, in a continuous dialectic of mutual benefit.” Each endosymbiont thus becomes a paradigm of interspecies hybridization and temporal nomadism, manifested through a precise ostensive strategy: like natural specimens, the works are presented according to a rigorous scientific museographic framework.