Valentina Alvarado Matos is an artist whose work explores the moving image, focusing on the diaspora, landscape and gesture. Her work has been exhibited at venues such as La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, La Capella, V&A Museum, Artium, LIAF Biennale, Pesaro Film Festival, IFF Rotterdam, Viennale, SFCinematheque, Punto de Vista, Docks Kingdom, Ambulante, LOOP Festival, Filmoteca de Cataluña, among others.

She has been a resident at VSW Rochester, Hangar, La Escocesa, Matadero Madrid and Cultura Resident. She also combines her artistic practice with teaching, giving classes and workshops in various institutions.

Some of her films are in the catalogue of Light Cone, Archivo XCèntric and HAMACA.

Carlos Vásquez Méndez (b. 1975, Santiago de Chile) lives and works in Barcelona. He is a visual artist, filmmaker, and researcher. He is interested in the relationship between art and the document, discourses on the representation of the real, and the role of the artist as a critical historian. Through his practice, he has explored obsolescence as an aesthetic-political discourse or as a media archaeology, especially focusing on celluloid, the material with which he has developed most of his work. His films have been screened at Jeonju, FIDMarseille, Mar del Plata, First Look, Cineteca Mexicana, OpenCity, Process, Black Canvas, BPI/Centre Pompidou, and others. He received the Joris Ivens/Centre National des Arts Plastiques award at Cinéma du Réel (France) in 2016 and the Mayor’s Award in Yamagata (Japan) in 2019.
His cinematic installations and performances have been exhibited at Virreina Centre de la Imatge, La Capella, Filmoteca de Catalunya, Fabra i Coats, and Arts Santa Mònica. His work is included in the Light Cone catalog.

Carolina Ciuti is a contemporary art curator and researcher in the fields of visual and performing arts. She holds a BA in History and Preservation of the Artistic Heritage from the University of Florence (2009-2012) and an MA in Contemporary Art from the Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London (2013-2015). During her university training, she collaborated with the Collezione Gori: Fattoria di Celle (Pistoia) and the artists residency Villa Lena (Pisa), being respectively in charge of the educational proposals, the guided tours and the assistance to the director. She currently serves as artistic director of the LOOP video art festival in Barcelona, ​​where she started working in 2015 as a curator. At LOOP, she has produced exhibitions, film programmes and performances by internationally recognised artists such as: Regina de Miguel, Agnes Meyer-Brandis, Aleksandra Mir, Muntadas, Steina and Woody Vasulka and Anton Vidokle. She curated the group exhibitions And If Seeing Was Fire (Filmoteca de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2020), One Day I Stumbled Upon A Meteorite (Fabra i Coats – Contemporary Art Centre of Barcelona, 2019), PRODUCE, PRODUCE, PRODUCED (Real Cercle Artístic, Barcelona, 2018), the projects Francesca Banchelli: Before The Name (MACBA, Barcelona, 2016) and TRANSEUROPE EXPRESS (OfficeCafè, Pistoia, 2015), as well as the video programmes presented by LOOP at Cinéphèmère-FIAC Paris (editions 2017, 2018, 2019). She edited the publications One Day I Stumbled Upon a Meteorite (exhibition catalogue, stuffinabook, 2020), I Have A Friend Who Knows Someone Who Bought a Video, Once (LOOP Barcelona, ​​Mousse Publishing, 2016) and Before The Name: a book on an itinerant performance project. (RAM Editions, 2018). Ciuti is a permanent collaborator of the magazine of contemporary culture La Maleta de Portbou and she frequently contributes to the art catalogues of the publishing house Istituto Italiano Edizioni ATLAS. In 2017, she co-founded the art collective CRiB to create hybrid projects straddling the visual arts, theatre and performance. Whether through writing, curating, or research, all of Carolina’s projects denote a deep interest in the notion of ‘time’ in all its facets, its representation in the philosophical and cultural sphere, and its influence on the construction of identities.

Last update 3rd October 2020

Marina Vinyes Albes holds a degree in Humanities from the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, where she also specialised in Contemporary Film and Audiovisual Studies. Later she studied Design of Cultural Projects at the Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, thus developing her professional life between Catalonia and France. Since February 2020, she is Head of programming, educational services and exhibitions at the Filmoteca de Catalunya in Barcelona. In Paris, she has been a professor at the Faculté des Lettres of the Sorbonne University, where she is preparing her PhD thesis, and has worked in the artistic projects department of the Jeu de Paume, where she has curated numerous film cycles between 2013 and 2018 and the video installations’ exhibition Omer Fast. Le present continue (2015). In Barcelona, she has collaborated with the EUROM (The European Observatory on Memories), the CCCB, the Open City Thinking Biennale, the ICUB, the Maresme Biennial of Contemporary Art and the ‘la Caixa’ Foundation in the organisation of seminars, film programmes and cultural activities. In 2013 she received the Walter Benjamin Memorial International Prize for her unpublished essay Usos i abusos de la imatge en l’univers audiovisual de la Shoah (Uses and Abuses of the Image in the Audiovisual Universe of the Shoah, Documenta Universitària, 2015).

Last updated  3rd October 2020