Valentina Vetturi

Artistic Practice. Process and Context

Works and Collaborations

Valentina Vetturi develops long-term artistic research projects in which form and inquiry operate together. Her work constructs performative and media-based situations that reorganize how memory, value, and intelligence are encountered across human, technological, and ecological systems.

Vetturi’s work develops through sustained interdisciplinary collaborations across artistic, scientific, and theoretical fields.

Writing is a structural dimension of her practice — whether enacted through live inscription, delegated authorship, algorithmic generation, or archival reconstruction.

Beginning with early performance works focused on temporality, repetition and collective (a)synchronization, her research expanded toward layered investigations of forgetting and remembering (Alzheimer Café, 2014–ongoing). From 2015 onward, she has focused on digital permanence and infrastructural conditions of the web, addressing the logic of the permanent record and data accumulation. The Maths of the Secret (2023–ongoing) engages money as relational technology through hybrid lecture-performances integrating scholars voices and generative text-to-text and text-to-image systems. Mimosa Pudica (2024–ongoing) extends this trajectory toward vegetal memory and decentralized cognition, developing studio-based observation and interspecies inquiry as artistic method.

Institutional, spatial, and social conditions are structural components of her practice: engaging diverse audiences and configuring context as an active agent in the construction of form and knowledge.

1

La Pendolare (2010)

A durational performance unfolding daily on a commuter tram with a typewriter, structured around repetition and palindrome temporality.
2

Orchestra. Studio (2012/ ongoing)

Seven conductors perform the same score in a circular formation, without orchestra.
3

La Mossa di Ettore (2014/ongoing)

Two chess masters introduce a speculative new move into the game of chess, dedicated to physicist Ettore Majorana.
4

Alzheimer Café (2014/ ongoing)

A series of performances, sound installations and public interventions centered on fragments of musical memory.
5

I Never Think of the Future. It Comes Soon Enough (2016/ ongoing)

A body of work structured through digital permanence and the logic of the permanent record, articulated across performance, writing, and research on hacker culture and digital currencies.
6

Tails (2023)

A performative and sonic reconstruction of submarine fiber-optic infrastructures in papier-mâché.
7

The Maths of the Secret (2023-ongoing)

A video series redefining the lecture-performance format, structured around the opacity of money and generative AI systems.
8

Mimosa Pudica (2024 -ongoing)

A performative research project structured around vegetal memory and decentralized cognition in relation to digital ecologies.

Her work has developed through sustained collaborations with cultural institutions. Since 2014 she has worked with MAXXI – Museo nazionale delle arti del XXI secolo, where two works were produced and acquired within Open Museum Open City (curated by Hou Hanru). In 2023 MAXXI L’Aquila produced a new project inaugurating the museum’s Metaverse platform with a solo presentation, and the institution is currently a partner of Mimosa Pudica.

Her research has also been presented at MA*GA Museum (solo exhibition), the 16th Quadriennale d’Arte, IANG Basel, Strauhof Zürich, and the Lagos Biennial (curated by Kathryn Weir). In 2024 Mimosa Pudica received support from the Italian Council research grant.

Vetturi presents her work internationally through exhibitions, performative formats, and collaborative research contexts, and teaches in higher education institutions in Italy.