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.