Vanessa Beecroft

Vanessa Beecroft born 1969 Genoa Italy
Beecroft uses a unique, personal, artistic language. Her work is a complex fusion of conceptual issues and aesthetic concerns, focusing on large-scale performance art, usually involving live female models (often nude). At her performances, video recordings and photographs are made, to be exhibited as documentation of the performances, but also as separate works of art.

see also:
http://www.thing.net/~vanessa/screen.html