Valentina Díaz
Her practice outlines a mechanized language that conjures abstract geometry, body and rhythm. She uses the technology of a 1960's knitting machine inherited from her grandmother to encode emotional states. Her work focuses on the production of woven fabric and characters that give rise to performative events where the relationship between the human and the machine often appears in friction. In her pieces the structural knitting pattern forms a graphic score that guides the movements of each of the characters while serving to explore diagrams associated with processes of diverse complexity.
She studied Visual Arts in the Universidad Nacional de Tucumán (Argentina, 2011). Participated in the SOMA Educational Program (2017) and is currently pursuing a master’s degree in visual arts at UNAM. She was artist-in-residence at Flora ars+natura (Colombia, 2019), Pivô Pesquisa (Brazil, 2022) and Materia Gris (Bolivia, 2023). She received a grant from Talleres de Producción y Seguimiento de Obra by the National Endowment for the Arts in Argentina (2012-2014). She was awarded the Travel Grant of the Oxenford Collection (2015), the Prince Claus Fund Mobility Prize (2017), the Creation Grant (2017) and the Training Scholarship (2019) both by the National Endowment for the Arts in Argentina and the sponsorship of the Jumex Foundation in Mexico City to print the book The Room of the Language or the Language of the Room (2020).
Among her major exhibitions are: The verb is a process at the XXII Biennial of Contemporary Art Santa Cruz de la Sierra (Bolivia); The pulse of the sleeping gesture (2023) at Museo Jumex (Mexico City); An object that becomes a conversation (2023) at Materia Gris (Bolivia); The intermittent movement of speech acts (2022) at Vernacular Institute (Mexico City); Continuity is just a mathematical technique to approach things of very fine grain (2019) at Flora ars+natura (Colombia); We are not the river (2019) at El Galpón (Argentina) and Marso Foundation (Mexico City); /A Å Æ )A( (2019) at Squash editions (Mexico City); The Room of the Language or the Language of the Room (2018) at Museo Experimental el Eco (Mexico City).
