LUCA BERTINI

Luca Bertini, IT (1979)

 

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I work through infiltration rather than representation.

 

My installations embed themselves within existing

infrastructures - telephony, radio frequencies, satellite networks,

neural interfaces - and redirect their logic from within. The

audience encounters the work not in a gallery, but in a missed call,

a familiar melody, a conversation that seems to have been

overheard.

 

This camouflage is not aesthetic strategy but operative method:

by occupying systems rather than depicting them, I can expose

the moment where technical process and human intimacy

become indistinguishable.

 

There is a deliberate ambivalence in these works. A toll-free

number pleading for your return can feel both absurd and

unsettling; satellites playing broken telephone, both whimsical

and eerie. I'm drawn to this tonal instability - the point where

tenderness tips into discomfort, where humor reveals

vulnerability. The uncanny emerges not from horror, but from

recognition.

 

I exposed - among others - at New York Gallery - ISE foundation (US);

Ars Electronica (AT); Sonar ‘07 (ES); Audio Relays in Lafayette (US); Expò de Mulhouse (FR); GAMeC - Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo (IT); Peam - Pescara Electronic Artists meeting (IT); Pianissimo Gallery (IT); Edith-Ruß-Haus für Medienkunst, Oldemburg (DE).​​​​​​​