Biography
Born in Catania on the 28th April 1983 and brought up by Sicilian mother and Apulian father, Benedetta started her studies when she was 14, receiving, in 2002, the Diploma at the Art Institute in Cataloguing and Survey of Cultural and Environmental Assets. In March 2008, she graduated with merit at the Academy of Fine Arts in Catania.
During her life path, she combines different elements such as sculpture, drama, dance and photography, and right the latter represents for her the foundation for an innovative and eclectic artistic path, which holds several facets; from here, she starts working as a full-time artist.
For Benedetta, photography represents "the constant parallelism of all opposites”, where conceptuality turns into matter through the camera lens. The artist, working usually with self-timers, becomes actress and performer on well-built and sophisticated sets; she seems, before the observer’s eyes, ironic, sensual and gloomy.
Her china dolls are often subjected to the observer’s gaze too; make-up is put on them, they are shaped and positioned as they were actresses with a thousand faces.
The most relevant publications of her artistic work include the one published on Giorgio Bonomi’s volume: “Il corpo Solitario II”; one of her last projects “I cook (for) you” (2014) appears in the permanent collection in the Italian Archive of self-portrait (Musinf).
In 2009, Benedetta approached the curators’ world, started to write her first reviews and fully dedicated herself to the organization of events. Successively, she founded also “Artisti Italiani - arti visive e promozione”, an Italian association that works throughout Italy and deals with all the promotional aspects of contemporary art.
Among the most significant texts, written so far, we find “L’Androgino come icona dal ‘900 ad oggi - Tra mito, spettacolo e fotografia”, (related to the androgynous between myths, entertainment and photography) a theme already covered in 2007 and redeveloped successively in a reissue on 2014; among her major collaborations is the Celeste Prize 2017.
Currently, she works as critic and art curator, and she is a contributor for the magazine “Juliet Art Magazine” too.
