Vanessa Beecroft works in the gap between art and life. The work is neither performance nor documentary, but something in between. Her live events are recorded through photography and film, but her conceptual approach is actually closer to painting. Beecroft is making contemporary versions of the complex figurative compositions that have challenged painters from the Renaissance onwards. She sets up a structure for the participants in her live events to create their own composition, presenting themselves according to their own internalized aesthetic system. For more information about Vanessa Beecroft's most recent performance VB 55, at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, please visit http://www.freunde-der-nationalgalerie.de/beecroft www.vanessabeecroft.com Select Essay or Articles Standing and Staring, Yet Aiming for Empowerment Vanessa Beecroft's Painted Ladies Performance that Makes Itself, by Jeffrey Deitch Select Project VB64 VB45/VB48 VB39/VB42 VB16, Piano Americano- Beige The Silent Service The Garden Party Shopping Self Portraits, A Vogue Portfolio Art Basel Miami Beach 2004 VBGDW