Luca Gerry Conte
Bio Art and DesignLuca Gerry Conte is an artist, gastronome and storyteller. His practice explores how artworks and situations evolve across space and time, creating multisensory experiences that encourage an ecological awareness of the environments we inhabit. Working with food, natural materials and interactive elements, he explores the potential for social and poetic transformation. His research into material and gastronomic metamorphosis draws attention to the extraordinary within the ordinary, inviting audiences to engage with familiar environments in unexpected ways. These encounters often require a small effort or moment of friction, opening up possibilities for intimate narratives and connections. Underlying his practice is an alchemic process. A quiet, ongoing research into transformation, not only of matter, but also of meaning and personal experience.
What Happened to the World? What Happened to That Child? is an installation that explores the relationship between ecological transformation, everyday rituals and play. Building on his research into food and its potential beyond consumption, Conte works with organic materials and experimental creations that challenge conventional ways of interacting with our surroundings. The installation at Felix Meritis creates a space for both activity and rest, where domestic gestures meet playful experimentation with living materials. Rather than treating these materials as fixed objects, Conte considers their capacity to change, decay, and become part of ongoing cycles of transformation. Through this approach, the work reflects on what nourishes a body, guided by personal experience, curiosity and imagination. During the whole event, the space will be open to anyone to rest and play, with the aid of Pietro Lugaro and Enrica Arbia, who will facilitate the creation of a playful soundscape.