Valentina Vetturi
Artistic Practice. Process and Context
This website brings together a selection of works, texts, and ongoing research.
My practice develops through long-term artistic research through writing, performance, sound, installation, moving image, and digital media. Each work begins by entering a specific field of knowledge or practice, spending time with the people, environments, and questions that define it. It takes shape through observation, dialogue, and reiteration.
Across different projects, I return to memory and forgetting, following the ways they emerge within human experience, digital infrastructures, and vegetal life.
Projects grow out of sustained encounters with people whose knowledge belongs to different fields—from commuters or chess players or orchestra conductors to hackers, economists, botanists, philosophers, and scientists. These encounters alter the course of the work, opening new questions, methods, and possibilities. Writing accompanies every stage of the process, becoming at times the work itself or the score from which it emerges.
The practice unfolds through a constellation of interconnected works. Individual works often evolve over several years through different media and context. Questions, methods, and forms return in different configurations, alongside recurring investigations into how memory is written, transmitted, stored, transformed, and lost.
Spatial, institutional, and social contexts shape each iteration. The works circulate between art institutions, research environments, and public space, responding to architecture, local histories, and the people they encounter. These conditions influence their duration, scale, media, and modes of participation.
My practice unfolds through exhibitions, performances, publications, lectures, teaching, and public conversations.
The work has been presented in museums, biennials, festivals, universities, galleries, and independent organisations, including MAXXI Rome and L’Aquila, Lagos Biennial, IAGN Basel, tranzit.ro, MA*GA Museum, Spazio Murat Bari, the 16th Quadriennale d’Arte, MACTE, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Strauhof Zürich, Norrlandsoperan in Umeå, Santarcangelo Festival, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, and Galleria Marilena Bonomo Bari.
Collaborations within international research networks are also integral to this work.