The Art Edit | Luca Cacciapuoti (Arsenyco)
Words by SMP Journal
Welcome to The Art Edit, a weekly series from SMP Journal where we introduce artists whose work speaks to us. Each week, we share a creative voice that moves us, through form, feeling, or concept. These are not just names to follow, but artists whose work creates a pause, a shift, a response. Art that stays with you.
This week, we’re featuring Luca Cacciapuoti, the Italian visual artist known as Arsenyco.
There is a quiet kind of tension in his work. His photographs do not ask for attention, they offer presence. Feelings. Love. Humans, raw, weird, and real. A gesture, a texture, a phrase. His images unfold slowly, like a sentence you read twice because it feels familiar.
Photo credit: Luca Cacciapuoti (@arsenyco)
Born in Naples and now living in Rome, Luca’s approach to photography is instinctive, poetic, and highly personal. Before turning to visual art, he studied dance. You can still feel that physical sensitivity in his images. The way a hand rests on skin. The way fabric drapes or light touches a surface. There’s a softness to his compositions, but never a lack of intention.
His Instagram feed (@arsenyco) reads like a visual diary. Each post is a small, self-contained world. A flower against skin. A mouth slightly open. A handwritten sentence. The objects he chooses feel symbolic without being forced. What you see is never just what’s there. It’s what it suggests.
What sets his work apart is the combination of text and image. He often overlays short, poetic lines, typed or handwritten onto his photos. Sometimes they feel like thoughts that came out of nowhere. Other times they feel like memories. As Luca said in an interview with Vogue Italia, “Il testo approfondisce o mette in crisi quello che gli occhi vogliono vedere.”
“Text either deepens or disrupts what the eyes want to see.”
(Source: Vogue Italia – “Dare voce alle immagini: la fotografia di Arsenyco”)
That tension between what’s shown and what’s said is where his work lives. Nothing is explained too much. There’s always space left for the viewer to enter.
One of his most personal series is called Io che… (“I who…”). The format is simple, an image paired with a first-person sentence. It’s a way for him to express internal states visually, and to let viewers project their own stories into the work. The tone is reflective, intimate, sometimes fragile.
Recently, he’s been photographing the club scene in Naples and Rome. Even there, where energy runs high, his photos find the in-between moments. A pause, a gesture, a glance. He isn’t documenting nightlife for spectacle. He’s capturing something more human inside it.
Luca’s art does not feel like a performance. It feels like presence. Honest and carefully considered. You don’t just look at his images, you sit with them. And slowly, they start to speak.
You can explore his work at arsenyco.it or on Instagram at @arsenyco.
Our Favorites from Luca Cacciapuoti
A curated selection of striking works by the artist behind Arsenyco, showcasing his unique visual language and mood.
fragrant, - Photo credit: arsenyco.it
creepy, - Photo credit: arsenyco.it
[mi manchi] - Photo credit: arsenyco.it
[scusa.] - Photo credit: arsenyco.it
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