Valentina Alvarado Matos

Trópico Desvaído

Valentina Alvarado Matos

These images, filmed in Venezuela and Spain, belong to a brief essay of these round trips where I search for a tension built on the idea of being native and foreign. Starting from a series of thoughts on the territory, while defining or blurring the borders, and terms like traveling and return, I started to film postcards, flashes and/ or blinks of metaphors. These are associations or links that I have with my place of origin, exploring the phenomenon of moving from one place to another, the itinerancies.

Levantamiento de una isla

Valentina Alvarado Matos

In this film, Alvarado uses collage, paint, and ceramics as a means to build a possible territory to be inhabited from the diaspora and from a constant questioning of identity and roots.

El mar peinó a la orilla

Valentina Alvarado Matos

“To blend the sea and the sky with a brushstroke, to erase the horizon, to raise a new dawn. El mar peinó a la orilla searches for new geographies in a visual game that intends to alter the filmed landscape” (Valentina Alvarado).

Chances de luz

Valentina Alvarado Matos

Like a huntress, the director began capturing moments of light during blackouts in her hometown of Maracaibo, seeking out elusive chances in the half-light.

Propiedades de una esfera paralela

Valentina Alvarado Matos

Aí

Valentina Alvarado Matos

In AÍ, I propose different ways of relating with the territory. To do so, I travel through the space, explore it and display a flag on one of the mounds that make it up –a vestige of previous occupations–. The flag has a textual plot with the words country and root. The sound, an echo of these words, becomes a mantra.