Sounding Bodies. Valentina Alvarado Matos “Scraping the page and the voice” x L’Alternativa

scraping the page and the voice is a fragmented personal account combining image, text and sound to reflect on how memories of the landscape shift back and forth. It also explores how certain landscapes are represented, described or distorted from other places. This performance aims to become a journey—or more of a stroll—through a space that is at once territory, garden, park, forest, pond, land and also language.

Valentina Alvarado Matos is an artist who focuses on the moving image through the critical perspective of diasporas, landscapes and gestures. Her work has been showcased at leading film festivals, including the Pesaro Film Festival, Viennale, Los Angeles Filmforum and l’Alternativa, and she has been an artist-in-residence at Hangar, La Escocesa, The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and Matadero Madrid, among others.

A number of her films have been distributed by Light Cone and form part of the XCèntric archive. Her work also features in Cecilia Fajardo-Hill’s book Remains-Tomorrow: Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction. In early 2024 she teamed up with Carlos Vásquez Méndez to put on the exhibition el otro aquí at La Capella and totalmente rostro, which serves as a counterpart to el otro aquí, at La Virreina Centre de la Imatge. She combines her artistic practice with teaching and has given classes and workshops at places such as La Massana, Universitat de Barcelona, Universidad del Zulia (Venezuela) and the International Film and Television School (EICTV, Cuba).