Artist & Poet
Valentina Vella (IT/US) is an interdisciplinary artist making autofictional work about precarity, mental health, love and post-capitalist imaginaries. She centers narrative and the poetic word while exploring the way the body, sound, and rhythmical patterns modulate, enrich and sometimes contradict language in performance. 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 in Rome at La Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna and in Chicago at Links Hall, Mana Contemporary and The Museum of Contemporary Art. She lives in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
