Luciana Bongiovanni

Luciana Bongiovanni is an Argentinian multidisciplinary artist.

Most of her life she’s worked in the audiovisual world. Since arriving in Minneapolis in 2020, she’s been developing her fiber art practice creating soft weaving sculptures mainly with wool, a material that has always been part of her life. Her family in Argentina works in the yarn wholesale business, and she grew up surrounded by her mom, grandma and aunt knitting as a daily task. To Luciana, wool means home.

In her artwork, she explores the meaning of home as an immigrant –a concept tied to territory, culture, family and community– and the contradictions it entails, how we all are a weaving tapestry of cultures, memories and stories. The act of weaving itself, the gesture, becomes another layer of meaning not only as she works freely on the loom, weaving back and forth until the vision unfolds, but also as a time-honored labor that links diverse communities from all over the world.

Her work is mostly abstract and plays with contrast and juxtaposition: organic shapes in dialogue with geometric forms, softness with roughness, raw materials with mass produced ones, and plain textures with dynamic three-dimensions. It expresses connections and roots, and continues the ancient tradition of weaving into modern life.