VALENTINA ALVARADO MATOS

DESBORDAMIENTOS

Fundación Luis Seoane | Friday June 6th | 11:00 pm | Free entry to all venues until full capacity. It will not be possible to enter the venues after the screening has started.

Barcelona-based Venezuelan artist Valentina Alvarado Matos returns to (S8) with a new performance in which she continues her exploration of the moving image with a critical look at the diaspora, landscape and gestures.

Voy raspando la hoja y la voz
Valentina Alvarado Matos | 2024 | Spain, Venezuela | 16 mm, slides, cassette loops | 30 min

Voy raspando la hoja y la voz is a piece that combines image, text and sound to create a sensorial and conceptual journey through memory of the landscape. Within it, voice becomes a fragmented narrative; a thread that weaves together personal memories while reflecting on how landscapes shift, transform, and become rearranged through time and space. The journey, far from linear, is presented as a walk that shifts between the tangible and the symbolic, blurring the boundaries between the physical place and the language describing it. The work also deals with how some territories get represented, described or distorted via other points of view, questioning the dominant narratives. The place being explored is not only a territory, a garden, a park or a forest, but also a linguistic construction, a space re-imagined through language, inviting us to reconsider the boundaries between the physical and the symbolic, between what is real and what is narrated. (Valentina Alvarado Matos)