Project Space Residency

September 23 – October 21, 2025

Open Studio + Performance: Friday October 17, 6-8pm

Valentina Alvarado Matos is an artist whose work has been exhibited at the Pesaro Film Festival, Viennale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, Oberhausen, Punto de Vista, Ambulante, XCentric, SFCinemateque, S8 Mostra Cine Periférico, Loop Festival, Cinemateca Madrid, Filmoteca de Cataluña, Microscope Gallery, Los Angeles Film Forum, Salzburger Kunstverein, Fabra i Coats, Arts Santa Mònica. She has been an artist in residence at Hangar, La Escocesa, Cultura. Resident – Museu Bellas Artes Castellón, Fora de Camp,  LIFT Toronto and Matadero.

Her work is part of the catalog of Light Cone and the XCèntric Archive.   In early 2024 she had a solo exhibition with Carlos Vásquez Méndez in La Capella and La Virreina Centre de la Imatge. She has taught at Master LAV, Eina Barcelona, Can Felipa Ars Visuals, Centre Cultural Albareda, La Universidad del Zulia, Universitat de Barcelona, and EICTV Escuela Internacional de Cine y TV de San Antonio de los Baños in Cuba.

As a part of her Open Studio, Alvarado Matos will stage a projection performance in the VSW theater entitled, voy raspando la hoja y la voz (I am scraping the leaf and the voice) – a 30 minute piece that combines 16mm film, slides, text, and cassette loops to create a sensorial and conceptual journey through memory of the landscape. Within it, voice becomes a fragmented narrative; a thread that weaves together personal memories while reflecting on how landscapes shift, transform, and become rearranged through time and space. The place being explored is not only a territory, a garden, a park, or a forest, but also a linguistic construction, a space reimagined through language, inviting us to reconsider the boundaries between the physical and the symbolic, between what is real and what is narrated.

The performance will begin at 7:30pm in the VSW Theater.

VSW Project Space Residencies are supported by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the New York State Legislature, Monroe County, and Joy of Giving Something.