Valeria Del Vacchio

Time is at the heart of Valeria's research. The need to understand and experiment with the dimension of time  began during her academic studies with the creation of her first video loop.  Nowadays, video loops have become an indispensable tool in the Metaverse, where the video, seen as crypto art, is intended to be viewed as a seamless loop. 

Observing and capturing the movement of man, animals and natural phenomena, Valeria felt the need to transform these actions in order to give them a visual synthesis and to be able to organise them in her memory. This allowed Valeria to interact with silhouettes, add up the wavelengths of visible light, transform the organic into geometry, play with patterns and compositions and explore digital and vector graphics.  These acquired techniques helped Valeria to refine her own personal aesthetics and shift her observations to the mind's movements, thus decoding the maze the mind creates daily. 

Valeria relates routinely with the temporal dimension of repetition. A constant that has guided her towards understanding feelings, such as depression and anxiety. Repetition is key to understanding the various facets the artist creates. A deep connection with silence and a refinement with perception has helped Valeria discover that time is neither heard nor observed, but perceived. 

Being able to perceive time in its subtlety is a necessary prerogative to discover, define and consolidate one's subjective identity. 

In Valeria's work, reflections emerge in the dimensions of space and time, but also, in the notions of existential psychology. Fundamental to her research are visual perception and rhythm. Geometry, aboriginal design, symbolic language, cryptography, provocative surrealism and conceptualism also play a part in Valeria’s work. While the main elements defining V.'s aesthetics are white light and the one colour scheme that favours cyan and magenta, symbols, typefaces, binary series, alphanumeric strings and sequences are other successful aspects of her work. 

Valeria leads the viewer into parallel dimensions, which are sometimes dreamlike and visionary, simple and idyllic, while at other times are enigmatic and complex.  Through the use of multiple tools, she conveys the experience of an artist, who is experiencing the revolution of society precipitating towards Industry 4.0. 

Among Valeria's preferred technical tools are both analogue and digital. In fact, V. uses a variety of techniques, such as pen drawing, 2D animation, 3D prints, augmented reality, generative art, and recently, the occasional use of artificial intelligence, to elevate her work. 

Observing her own actions and inner self on a daily basis, Valeria creates, with courageous honesty, a kind of analogue-digital biography where dreams, fears and emotions are revealed to the point of being perceived by the reader as his or her own.