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Benni Bosetto (b. 1987, Merate, Italy) is an Italian artist based in Milan whose practice spans drawing, sculpture, installation and performance. Trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera and the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, she develops works in which the body is treated as unstable, porous and continually entangled with other beings, materials and environments. Drawing is central to her process and often acts as the starting point for larger installations and performances, combining autobiographical fragments with references drawn from literature, anthropology, psychoanalysis, popular culture and art history. Across her practice, recurring themes include ritual, sexuality, vulnerability, rest and the suspension of linear time.
Executed in 2023, Anche le formiche amano il latte belongs to Bosetto’s drawing practice, in which red chalk, pencil and other graphic media are used to construct intimate, dreamlike images that often appear to hover between the bodily and the symbolic. The title, which translates as “Even ants love milk,” reflects the associative and slightly surreal logic that runs through her work, where ordinary objects, animals and bodily references are brought into unexpected relation. Presented in the artist’s own frame, the drawing functions as a complete object rather than simply an image on paper, reinforcing Bosetto’s interest in extending drawing into the physical space of sculpture and installation.