Valentina Canseco

Biography

© Charles Duprat, courtesy of the artist.

Valentina Canseco was born in Paris in 1985 to Brazilian and Chilean parents. She studied visual arts and graduated from various institutions in France, Belgium and Columbia.

Her work is at the crossroads between painting, sculpture and installation. It explores a one-of-a-kind relationship with landscape, playing with light, colour and variations in scale, thus creating metonymies that enable us to analyse our world. They aim at recreating sensory impressions of the outside world. She questions our relationship with architecture and the living world through her work in volumes. Her paintings are made to the beat of the colours, which she perceives as music, thus composing a score sheet of the unseen. The spectrum of her work extends from an initial relation to figurative matter to more abstract and spiritual questions.

Valentina Canseco's work is regularly sought-after or selected and has been exhibited in various public or private places for several years. She won the Medellin (Colombia) creation grant and her work was displayed in many of the city's cultural institutions such as the Museum of Modern Art of Medellín (MAMM), at the 2011 MDE Biennale. In 2017, she was selected to display her artwork at the 62nd Salon de Montrouge. In 2018, she took part in an exhibition at the 104 in partnership with the Maison Européenne de la Photographie (MEP), where she was able to show her work as a photo-plastician. The same year, she participated in a collective installation at the French Pavilion of the Venice Architecture Biennale. In 2019, she created a performance in collaboration with the 19CRAC of Montbéliard, and she showcased her artwork at the Villa Datris Fondation in Isle-sur-la-Sorgue the year after. In 2021, she conceived a monumental installation at the Basilique Saint-Vincent, as part of the Festival International Constellations de Metz. She also takes part in various contemporary art fairs in France and abroad with the 193 Gallery (Art Paris, 2021; Luxembourg Art fair, Miami Scope, 2022; Art Genève with a solo show, 2023).

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