Valentina Gelain

Valentina Gelain was born in Feltre in 1992 and currently lives and works in Ostrobothnia, Finland. In recent years, the artist has explored video art and, more generally, a multidisciplinary approach to research and practice, which has led her to work with photography, performance, installation, poetry, and more. The Gray Hour and The Peaks are examples of recent projects in which her body of work spans multiple artistic disciplines.

Through subjective experience and introspection, Gelain investigates issues related to human existentialism, drawing directly from the mental and emotional, symbolic, and dreamlike spheres, often placing her work in rural and natural settings.
By maintaining a plural openness of perception, she explores various research themes such as inner conflicts, mental landscapes, and redemption, through a synergy between form and content, image and intention.

Her analysis is based on the practice of (intra)reflection, openness, and dialogue, aiming to break down barriers and reach others through intimate reflections and genuine experiences, giving space to invisible parts of our being that are often still rejected with indifference and misunderstanding; reminding us of the unbound resources of thought and the cognition of others starting from ourselves.

By bridging consciousness and unconsciousness, vision and figuration, the balance oscillates between introspective inquiry and the search for empathetic equilibrium. Accepting discomfort for true transformation, in a voluntary and active path that leads to various catharses of being and, consequently, to how we can (co)exist in reality.
As an interdisciplinary artist, Gelain explores subjects and figurations through different languages and media, which help convey her vision of the work as faithfully as possible.