Valentina Furian - Centauro, 2023 - Garage, Pontives

Valentina Furian, Centauro, 2023. HD Video, Color, Stereo Sound. Courtesy the Artist and Fundación PROA. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

Valentina Furian tol ca l film, la performance y la fotografia per ti jì do ala relazion danter realtà y finta, umanità-natura y al raport danter la sortes, dantaldut di tieres. Te si films se fërmela particularmënter sun l pruzes de zartië i tieres che ie i prutagonisć de si imajes n muvimënt ulache la conta da una na pert dl arbandon dl mond salvere y dal’autra pert dl’afermazion dl dumëne dla persona sun la natura. Tl video 55 (2019), per ejëmpl, mostra la camera sun n cian che baia y brontla de vieres de zeche che verd dedora dal ciamp. De gra ala lum dla flames iesen boni de udëi la zanes blances dl tier che se tëm dal fuech – mesun prinzipel dla persona – y si baië dassënn y che ne lascia nia plu do mët l spetadëur tla medema situazion de tëma.

L video n mostra – prudot a Buenos Aires cun l sustëni de Fundación PROA - vën prejentà per l prim iede a The Parliament of Marmots y se cunzentrea sun la figura mitologica de n zentaur, na creatura che ie n ibrid danter l corp de n ciaval y l bust de na persona. L ubietif dla videocamera se cunzentrea sun i muvimënc nervëusc y tenii ite dl tier zartià: i mustli se destira, la lesures se plieia. L monitor metù via per fonz, lascia pro che n ti cële da tramedoi pertes, n porta nsci ite tl’imaja l spetadëur y l fej deventé na pert dl ibrid, danter realtà y finta, danter persona y tier. L corp dl tier maiestëus coche na statua, che ne respetea nia la scala, devënta nsci n’astrazion, n paesaje epidermich, n crëp che se muev y che fluternea zënza mei se lascé ju via per fonz. (M.P.)

VALENTINA FURIAN

Valentina Furian (1989, Venice, Italy) works mainly with moving images and time-based installations. Her cinematographic approach is a hybrid between documentary experimentation and narrative fiction. In 2024 she won the New York Prize with ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York. In 2023 she was artist in residency at Proa21, PROA Foundation, Buenos Aires in collaboration with GAMeC, Bergamo and she was selected for the project Nuovo Forno del Pane with MAMbo, Bologna. Over the years she worked with institutional and experimental spaces such as MAXXI, Rome; Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, IIC Paris; Sunaparanta Center for Contemporary Art Goa, IIC Mumbai; MUSE, Trento; The Blank Contemporary Art, Bergamo; CareOf, Fondazione Stelline, and ViaFarini, Milan; Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation and Microclima, Venice; and Cinema Visionario, Udine.

Valentina Furian - Centauro, 2023 - Garage, Pontives

Valentina Furian, Centauro, 2023. HD Video, Color, Stereo Sound. Courtesy the Artist and Fundación PROA. Photo by Tiberio Sorvillo

Valentina Furian tol ca l film, la performance y la fotografia per ti jì do ala relazion danter realtà y finta, umanità-natura y al raport danter la sortes, dantaldut di tieres. Te si films se fërmela particularmënter sun l pruzes de zartië i tieres che ie i prutagonisć de si imajes n muvimënt ulache la conta da una na pert dl arbandon dl mond salvere y dal’autra pert dl’afermazion dl dumëne dla persona sun la natura. Tl video 55 (2019), per ejëmpl, mostra la camera sun n cian che baia y brontla de vieres de zeche che verd dedora dal ciamp. De gra ala lum dla flames iesen boni de udëi la zanes blances dl tier che se tëm dal fuech – mesun prinzipel dla persona – y si baië dassënn y che ne lascia nia plu do mët l spetadëur tla medema situazion de tëma.

L video n mostra – prudot a Buenos Aires cun l sustëni de Fundación PROA - vën prejentà per l prim iede a The Parliament of Marmots y se cunzentrea sun la figura mitologica de n zentaur, na creatura che ie n ibrid danter l corp de n ciaval y l bust de na persona. L ubietif dla videocamera se cunzentrea sun i muvimënc nervëusc y tenii ite dl tier zartià: i mustli se destira, la lesures se plieia. L monitor metù via per fonz, lascia pro che n ti cële da tramedoi pertes, n porta nsci ite tl’imaja l spetadëur y l fej deventé na pert dl ibrid, danter realtà y finta, danter persona y tier. L corp dl tier maiestëus coche na statua, che ne respetea nia la scala, devënta nsci n’astrazion, n paesaje epidermich, n crëp che se muev y che fluternea zënza mei se lascé ju via per fonz. (M.P.)

VALENTINA FURIAN

Valentina Furian (1989, Venice, Italy) works mainly with moving images and time-based installations. Her cinematographic approach is a hybrid between documentary experimentation and narrative fiction. In 2024 she won the New York Prize with ISCP - International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York. In 2023 she was artist in residency at Proa21, PROA Foundation, Buenos Aires in collaboration with GAMeC, Bergamo and she was selected for the project Nuovo Forno del Pane with MAMbo, Bologna. Over the years she worked with institutional and experimental spaces such as MAXXI, Rome; Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai; Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, IIC Paris; Sunaparanta Center for Contemporary Art Goa, IIC Mumbai; MUSE, Trento; The Blank Contemporary Art, Bergamo; CareOf, Fondazione Stelline, and ViaFarini, Milan; Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation and Microclima, Venice; and Cinema Visionario, Udine.