EdgeStretching is the artistic pseudonym of Benedetta Mucchi, an Italian digital artist based in Brussels. Her practice sits at the intersection of photography and digital construction, where she develops multilayered images that introduce subtle shifts in time, motion, and perception.
Her background in computer graphics and animation, developed during her studies at UCLA, and over two decades of experience in the audio-visual sector, inform a technically grounded yet conceptually open approach. In 2016, she began developing her own artistic work in parallel to her professional activity, a structure that continues to define her practice today.
This period also includes her work in moving image. Between 2012 and 2021, she produced a series of short films and animated works presented in international festivals across Europe, including Nothing Happens (2021), Working Day (2020), and Life (2018). Her films were selected and awarded in contexts such as the MinIndie Film Festival, Visualízame in Segovia, and the Kursaal Film Festival in San Sebastián, among others.
In 2023, she transitioned, with photography, into on-chain digital art, extending her practice into blockchain-based distribution.
Her work has quickly gained international visibility. In 2025, she was selected for HUG’s 100 Photographers to Watch, curated by National Geographic photographers John Knopf and Michael Yamashita. Her series Extinct received a nomination in the Photomanipulation category at the 2026 Fine Art Photography Awards, following an earlier nomination in 2023 for Sequences in the Experimental category.
Alongside these recognitions, her work has been exhibited widely across Europe, Asia, and the United States. She has participated in collective exhibitions in cities including Brussels, Paris, Rome, Kyoto, Chicago, and Tokyo, collaborating with platforms and galleries such as Artcrush, Obscura, LoosenArt, and ImnotArt.
Parallel to gallery contexts, her images have been displayed extensively in public space through large-scale digital screen networks. Her works have appeared in Times Square in New York, across hundreds of screens in Belgium, in Hong Kong, Melbourne, and during major events such as NFT Paris and NFTNYC. In early 2025, she was awarded Artcrush’s “Spotlight of the Month,” leading to global exposure across multiple continents and thousands of outdoor screens.
Through this dual presence, both in curated exhibition spaces and in urban digital displays, EdgeStretching develops a practice that reflects on how images circulate, persist, and transform within contemporary visual environments.
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