Daniel Day-Lewis

Daniel Day Lewis is a series of sculptures started in 2021 after three years of careful study and experiments. All the pieces are based on the shape of running shoes, with living creatures and natural elements (such as octopuses, shells and starfish) layered onto them, showing how the traces of the roads they have travelled have fused with the shoes themselves, as if those feet had collected the shapes of the sea over their long walks through the ocean. The prostheses made of wood - a living and constantly evolving material - adhere to the shape of the foot with perfect precision. The artist crystallises the act of walking whilst at the same time expanding its temporal dimension, experimenting with the metamorphosis of bodies. Bread is the single greatesttechnological object in history, sothese are cooked living fossils, everysole is a bas-relief, every sculpture isa recipe, every recipe is a sculpture:let’s cook the world. Luca Trevisani