
1985, in Mexico City, Mexico
Valentina Díaz (Argentina) focuses on the production of woven fabric and characters that serve as the impetus to performances in which the relationship between human and machine, emotional time and the time of a metronome, frequently appear in friction. In her pieces, the structural knitting pattern forms a complex graphic score that guides the movement of each of the characters. Continuous translation operations, fictional scenes, movements of variable repetition, and elements reinforcing the mechanisms of control within the body, make up this unique structural system in order to understand and experience emotional, physical and mental states. Together, the pieces and performance work as a ritual.
She studied Visual Arts and Fashion Design in the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina 2011 – 2014). Participated in the SOMA Educational Program (Mexico 2016-2017) and the Escuela Flora (Colombia 2019). She received a grant from Talleres de Producción y Seguimiento de Obra del Fondo Nacional de las Artes (Argentina 2012-2014). She was awarded the Travel Grant of the Oxenford Collection (2015), the Prince Claus Fund Mobility Prize (2017), the Beca Creación Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2017), and the Beca Formación Fondo Nacional de las Artes (2019) and the sponsorship of the Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporáneo to print the book The Room of the Language or the Language of the Room (2020). She is studying a Master’s Degree of Visual Arts at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.
Among her major exhibitions are: The intermittent movement of speech acts (Vernacular Institute, Mexico, 2022), Continuity is just a mathematical technique to approach things of very fine grain (Flora ars+natura, Colombia, 2019), We are not the river (El Galpón, Argentina, 2019 / Marso Foundation, Mexico, 2021), /A Å Æ )A( (Squash editions, Mexico, 2019), The room of the Language or the Language of the Room (Museo Experimental el Eco, Mexico, 2018), The Movement is not on the Screen (SOMA Mexico, Mexico, 2018), Tide Effect. The Link Urgency (Salón Nacional de Arte contemporáneo, Museo de la Universidad Nacional de Tucumán, Argentina, 2017), Sequel to a fragment (Rougés Cultural Center, Argentina, 2015), Crater (Subsuelo Fondo Nacional de las Artes, Argentina, 2015).
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