- Roberta Fosca Fossati

Born in Milan, she began her journey in theater as an actress, earning a diploma from the Nuova Scena school in Bologna and further honing her craft at the Guildford School of Acting in London. She worked both nationally and internationally with directors such as Tadeusz Kantor, Jerzy Stuhr, Giampiero Solari, Antonio Syxty, Gerald Thomas, Michail Gaunt, Gabriele Vacis, and others, eventually transitioning into directing in 2007.
Since 2000, she has expanded her creative pursuits into the broader field of visual arts. Through photography, she initially documented her work environment as a theater photographer before delving into the hidden depths of human faces with the project “Senz’Ombra” (1999).
Between 2005 and 2007, she conceived the festival “Strade Bianche – Kill the Butterfly,” which blended art, theater, and philosophy, addressing themes related to the environment and ecology. The festival featured renowned visual artists such as Emilio Isgrò, Massimo Bartolini, Eva Marisaldi, Nico Vascellari, Marco Porta, and David Behar Perahia.
She contributed photographs to the Motta Editore catalog of Filippo Dobrilla’s sculptures, a project commissioned by Vittorio Sgarbi in 2008. In 2009, she created a video titled “Bonaldi 01,” documenting the life and work of the late artist Federico Bonaldi, which is now preserved at the Ceramic Museum of Nove.
In 2010, a fire destroyed her library of 3,500 volumes, an event that inspired her work “Il Pensiero nel Fuoco” (“Thought in the Fire”), which she presented at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
In 2015, she created “La Grande Mucca” (“The Great Cow”), a denunciatory installation on denied identities within the realities of mental institutions. This work became part of the “Museo della Follia” (“Museum of Madness”), a traveling museum conceived by Vittorio Sgarbi.
In the recent years, she has been dedicated to the project “Bird Watching in Amazonia – Microvisions of the World,” an attempt to distill the vastness of the world into small spaces of emotions.