Benni Bosetto

“Rebecca” is Benni Bosetto's Italian first major institutional exhibition. The title is inspired by the 1938 novel of the same name by English writer and playwright Daphne du Maurier. In the novel, the real protagonist is a house that preserves the memory of a deceased woman named Rebecca, who lived there. The house in the novel, just like the display at Pirelli HangarBicocca, becomes a true architectural female body, a living organism. The name Rebecca, whose etymology refers to “bond” or “union”, alludes to welcoming, gathering, and retaining – acts that are central to Bosetto’s poetics of merging the body and environment in an intimate, continuous relationship. Inside the exhibition visitors experience the performance and installation Tango (II version), 2026.