Luca. M: Asphyxiate
GLOAM SHORTS Presents: Asphyxiate: Luca. M
Opening Night: 23/10/26, 6-9pm
Live Performance 7pm & 8:30pm
Exhibtion Open: 24/10/26, 12pm–4pm
Asphyxiate is a new body of work by Luca. M, examining breath as a connecting life force between the self, each other and all living things.
Expanding on their recent work exploring the use of recycled rubber inner tubes, they have created a site-specific installation in the form of a black rubber cube. This dark room acts as a living organ inside the space, an impermeable skin that audiences are invited to penetrate and exist inside. On the walls outside the cube are thorned branches, collected from sites of wildfires and suspended in black latex. The work looks at what breath between humans and plants means for our collective survival and what happens when this breath is taken away.
Luca. M is a Sheffield-based artist making work that explores the queer body through installation, performance and photography. Their work is informed by the materials they work with and the historical, social and political contexts in which these materials exist. Working with plants, discarded and found objects, they consider what it is to be human in relation to these objects, making use of what is already there and transforming it through a series of experiments.
Artist: Luca. M @night_toad
Curated by Thomas Griffiths @tlgrrrr

160 Arundel Street, Sheffield, S14RE
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Asphyxiate:
Luca. M
Asphyxiate:
Luca. M
Luca. M
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