Valentina Maggiolo

ESP PINTURA
SITIO ESPECÍFICO
LUGAR + COLOR
EXHIBICIONES
FRESCOS
PERRO BLANCO
BIO/CV
SOBRE MI


ENGPAINTING
SITE SPECIFIC
PLACE + COLOUR
EXHIBITIONS
FRESCOES
PERRO BLANCO
BIO/CV
ABOUT


1987
ABOUT

My practice sits at the intersection of archaeology, geography, and painting. These three are understood as ways of reading and writing time and space through matter. I approach time as an accumulation of layers, traces, and disappearances while approaching space as territory, composition, and geological substance. Painting becomes the medium where these dimensions converge—where color forges links to specific places or times, and the natural opens pathways to the supernatural. Both of these forces trigger primal, physiological effects, akin to those produced by certain combinations of color and therefore allow for travelling through evocation. 

I work with slow pictorial techniques such as oil paint, fresco and ceramics, which allow for the inscription of matter onto matter, and therefore,  of time onto time.  They also contribute to explore matters of scale, speed, and permanence.  These techniques incorporate mineral pigments that have taken millions of years to form. This direct relationship with the land led to a pigment processing practice tied to specific contexts, where color is understood as geological and cultural evidence. Elements like rock formations, distant fires, bones, or dry vegetation—native to the Peruvian coastal landscape—function as traces and thresholds between the visible and the invisible.

 I work from Lima and the Peruvian desert, where I develop pieces that tie color to place, time and memory.