Valentina Vella
audiovisueel - autobiografisch - video - literair - geluid
Valentina Vella (IT/US) is an interdisciplinary artist making autofictional work about precarity, mental health, love and post-capitalist imaginaries. She narrative centers and the poetic word while exploring the way the body modulates, and sometimes contradicts language in performance. She holds an MA in English literature from Roma Tre University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media from Columbia College Chicago. Whether she sings of the mundane cruelties of neoliberal existence or writes poetry interspersed with Norse mythology, found dialogues, recipe books, and Zen Buddhism, she's always propelled by an urgent desire for another world; conjuring strategies for change like a manic witch; and often admitting defeat. She holds an MA in English literature from Roma Tre University and an MFA in Interdisciplinary Arts and Media from Columbia College Chicago. She has performed at La Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna (Rome), The Museum of Contemporary Art (Chicago) and most recently at Kunstinstituut Melly (Rotterdam).
