PERAZZINI
Valentina Perazzini - italian visual artist based in Brussels
“[...]The character scatters in fragments nowadays”, Virginia Woolf answered to critics of her novel Jacob’s Room. “People say I cannot create[...] characters who will survive”. The thing which interests me the most is the idea of identity as ipseité, taken from Paul Ricoeur’s definition: identity following a narrative aspect, and which undergoes modifications every time the subject builds his personal narration (one narration of himself).
If this was already true during Virginia Woolf’s epoch, let alone what is happening today between reality and fiction through Social networks and Netflix, as we are facing the issue of defining ourselves in any contest: “creating a profile”.
I put a lot of interest in reading because it is enshrining in time;
it may be compared to a TV series which goes along with us, and during this juncture we live our life mixing it up with fictional characters’ story.
My work is composed of varieties of experiments, aiming constantly to build bridges between reality and narration: I am trying to shape a synthetic-nature fiction, through collages and Ikea plants. These attempts are oriented to the narration of this instantaneous and sublimate reality, where everything seems stretched out towards the ultimate question “Where are we going to meet?”
In fact, the other will be the only one capable to define us, as another broken mirror which scatters us in fragments.
Villacontemporanea - https://www.villacontemporanea.it/
Gallery
Education
2022 - 2023
Master in Art History at UCLouvain
2019 - 2020
Agrégation at La Cambre, Brussels
2007 - 2011
Degree in painting at Bologna Academy of Fine Arts
2010
Erasmus at NCDA (National College of Art and Design) in Dublin
Other
3rd Dan Aikikai of Aikido, I’m an Aikido teacher for adults and children at the school La Farandole, Brussels
Exhibitions
Solo and duo
2023
Belgian Light, curated by Ilaria Monti, Display, Parma, Italy
Une langue inouïe, Maison de la Francité, Brussels, Belgium
2022
2021
Into the wire, Maison verte, Brussels, Belgium
2017
L'Adultère durable, curated by Ginevra Bria, Villacontemporanea Gallery, Monza, Italy
2016
2014
The Habit of a Foreign Sky, curated by Ginevra Bria, Futurdome, Milan, Italy
Pre-texture (Il personaggio si disperde in frammenti al giorno d’oggi), curated by Monica Villa at Villa Contemporanea, Monza, Italy
2012
Sfogliare il prato(up!), curated by Rosita Lappi at Percorsi Arte Contemporanea, Rimini, Italy
Cento giorni di solitudine, curated by Sandro Sproccati at Blu Gallery, Bologna, Italy
Margheritario, curated by Domenico Maria Papa at Art Gallery Nuvole Contemporary, Montesarchio, Italy
2011
Solo exhibition of the contest Co.Co.Co., curated by Vittoria Coen at San Pietro in Atrio, Como, Italy
Parole per musica fiorite, curated by Chiara Gatti at Palazzo Verbania, Luino, Italy
Group
2021
2020
2019
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2011
2010
Art au Centre #6, organised by Mouvements Sans Titre, Liège, Belgium
Miscellanea, curated by Monica Villa at Villa Contemporanea, Monza, Italy
Keep in touch at Yamamo Karate club, Bruxelles
Prix découverte 2017 edition at centre d’art Rouge Cloitre, Bruxelles
Punctum, curated by Viola Invernizzi at Fondazione San Paolo, Torino, Italy
Stills of peace, curated by Antonio Zimarino at Museo Capitolare, Atri, Italy
Puls art, curated by Anna Z. Pezzin at Lanificio Conte, Schio Italy
Drawings from a blind line, curated by Monica Villa at Villa Contemporanea, Monza Italy
In Natura, curated by Gaia Pasi, at Palazzo Fini Minganelli, Siena, Italy
Exhibition of the contest Premio Fabbri curated by Carlo Sala, Treviso, Italy
Natura e Artificio curated by Marisa Zattini at il Vicolo, Cesena, Italy
Puls art, curated by Anna Z. Pezzin at Palazzo Fogazzaro, Schio, Italy
Selvatico Spore, curated by Massimiliano Fabbri at Pescherie della Rocca Lugo Italy
Puls art, curated by Anna Z. Pezzin at Palazzo Fogazzaro Schio Italy
May be Re Evolution, exhibition of the contest Project Berlin 2012 at Factory art, Germany
Fragile agli occhi, curated by Viola Ivernizzi at Moitre gallery, Torino, Italy
E uscimmo a riveder le stelle, exhibition of the contest San Fedele, Milano, Italy
Charity actions Sotheby’s in Milano curated by Chiara Canali, Italy.
A rare medium well done, at Moxie Studios Gallery of Dublin, Irleand.
Awards
Finalist Prix Découverte 2017
Winner of the contest CoCoCo (Como contemporary Contest) 2011
Finalist Premio Fabbri 2013
Winner of the Project Berlin, 2012
Finalist of the contest San Fedele 2010-2011
Finalist of the contest Arte-Scienza 2009