Dissociations

2012

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The strangeness produced by our behavior inside our daily spaces takes Valeria Valdizan to explore dissociation sensations towards her surroundings.

If exhibing (and being exhibit) in a painting can be associated with an experience of nudism, this experience is more intense when what is being discovered is the inner physiology, affected by a feeling of uprooting and created from a dialogue between the material and the creator. The result comes to us in a world where the texture, perhaps from the unconscious, interweaves with the entrails of an almost psychosomatic experience inside a known, but unknown as well, surrounding.

Valeria Valdizan has explored this sensation from the platform of the tridimensional language permitted by installations as well as from the plain surface, formal painting, to end up trying to understand herself as a functional being inside a world in which she often feels she is not interacting in and harmonic or natural way. Sometimes fish only realizes its phish once its taken out from the water. The tension generated by that experience is what we are seeing represented here, in this universe pulled by strange forces that battle between Valerias internal and external worlds.

In this way, Valeria seems to perceive herself as an abstract being from a universe made out of walls, windows and people, where the soul inhabits in the space between the textures and organic forms that come to be witnesses of the battle she has won to give presence to that sensations.

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Written by: Nader Barhumi