Lot 15

Luca Soldovieri is a Toronto-based multidisciplinary artist. Soldovieri’s labour-intensive practice sources materials that once held significance like personal love letters, family heirlooms, forgotten objects, and even household dust. In returning these materials back to their organic form, Soldovieri pays tribute to the past while fostering conversations about loss, memory and transformation.

Household dust is a material charged with physical traces of history, time, home, and self. It’s composed of the matter of its surroundings – of bodies, structures, and belongings – forged by the friction between them. In a body of work Luca unofficially refers to as ‘dust paintings,’ household dust becomes a visual language to explore experiences which are equally as personal, imperfect, and mysterious as the dust itself.