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by Lucía del Valle Ramírez
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Valentina Alvarado Matos (1986, Venezuela) is an artist whose practice focuses on the moving image, traversed by a gaze that reflects on diaspora, landscape, and gesture. Her work has been exhibited at Queer Circle London, V & A Museum, California Museum of Photography, Artium, LIAF Biennial, Pesaro Film Festival, Viennale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, L'Alternativa, Oberhausen, Festival Punto de Vista, Ambulante, XCentric, SFCinematheque, S8 Mostra de Cine Periférico, Loop Festival, Cinemateca de Madrid, Filmoteca de Cataluña, Microscope Gallery, Los Angeles Forum - 2220 Arts, Conde Duque Madrid, Salzburger Kunstverein, Fabra i Coats and Arts Santa Mònica, among others.
She has been artist-in-residence at Hangar, La Escocesa, Cultura Resident Castellón, Fora de Camp, LIFT Toronto, Dirdira Lab/Azala, and Matadero Madrid.
At the beginning of 2024, she inaugurates in Barcelona, together with Carlos Vásquez Méndez, el otro aquí, a solo exhibition at La Capella, and totalmente rostro at La Virreina Image Center, curated by David Armengol.
She combines his artistic practice with teaching, giving classes and workshops at institutions such as Massana, Master LAV, Eina, Can Felipa Arts Visuals, CC Albareda, the University of Zulia, the University of Barcelona, Cinema en Curs, BAU, and EICTV in Cuba.
Some of her films are part of the catalog of the distribution company Light Cone, Archivo XCèntri, and HAMACA.
Her work has been included in the book Remains-Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.
In 2025 she will be an artist-in-residence at VSW Rochester, NY. She will participate in the group show Transgresoras: Mail Art and Messages, the 1960s-2020s, curated by Zanna Gilbert at the California Museum of Photography, along with artists such as Cecilia Vicuña, Liliana Porter, Anna Bella Geiger, Carolina Caycedo, and Rivane Neuenschwander, among others.
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CADA GESTO
2024 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 9' 41 / 50 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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¿SE PUEDE DELETREAR LA HOJA?
2022 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 8' 47 / 42 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |
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ARROJALATIERRA
2019-2021 / Super 8mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 13' 48 / 60 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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FILM LETTERS (I) - To Nazli Dincel
2020 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 3' 47 / 30 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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FILM LETTERS (II) - To Nazli Dincel
2020 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 4' 04 / 33 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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FILM LETTERS (III) - To Nazli Dincel
2020 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 4' 14 / 34 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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FILM LETTERS (IV) - To Nazli Dincel
2020 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 4' 04 / 33 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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AÍ
2019 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 3' 17 / 30 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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EL MAR PEINÓ A LA ORILLA
2019 / Super 8mm / color / silent / single screen / 2' 25 / 21 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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CHANCES DE LUZ
2017 / Super 8mm / b&w / sound / single screen / 3' 57 / 32 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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LEVANTAMIENTO DE UNA ISLA
2017 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 5' 27 / 39 € distribution: Digital file on server |
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TRÓPICO DESVAÍDO
2016 / Super 8mm / color / sound / single screen / 6' 09 / 42 € distribution: DCP on server or Digital file on server |
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CRUCE POSTAL: DEL OTRO NUEVO VIAJE
2015 / 16mm / color / sound / single screen / 4' 54 / 37 € distribution: Digital file on server |