Loreto Valenzuela, born in 1973 in Chile, is a intidisciplinary visual and performance artist based in Germany. Working across drawing, movement, sculpture, and video, her practice is rooted in embodied research and poetics of care. Through intimate, often site-responsive gestures, she explores grief, perception, and ecological awareness.
Her work unfolds in both public and private spaces, engaging slowness as a radical act and inviting viewers to stay with what is fragile or unresolved. Recent projects include Mo[u]rning, a work in progress participatory performance addressing grief through shared ritual, ProjectIONS exploring what lies beyond the images. What are we projecting?, and UncertaiT which deal with what it means to accept the unknown, without tagging things up or down, but just experiencing it.
Loreto Valenzuela’s work resists spectacle, favouring stillness, presence, and the creation of temporary dwellings in times of uncertainty.
Modern ganesha,
2012 London.
Mixmedia work.
for The Art of the App, guardian’s readers submissions.