Carmen Valerio

Informed by cinematic traditions and photo chemical processes, Carmen Valerio's work is an adventure in narrative and motion through the expression of colour and texture, while working on each large canvas as if it were a single photographic frame of film.

An artist who experiments with different methods of production by applying and layering paint and paste to a surface with a variety of tools, alternately emphasising or suppressing traces of her touch, to create abstracted images and allowing emerging new forms to reveal de-familiarised, sculptural and tactile qualities.

This process-led practice began in the darkroom, texturising imagery by experimenting with chemicals, surfaces and historical printing methods, manipulating the photographic process to create abstracted images, photograms and collage.

The project determines the medium used as she seeks to give form to thought, to question aesthetics and social assumptions, stirred by the incessant emergence of new questions about art in all its forms and possibilities.

A practice is situated between documented facts, oral histories, chance observations and figments of the imagination.

Fine Art Photography and Printing
London College of Communication

Analogue to Digital Film Making
Four Corners, London

Experimental Printmaking, Colour Theory
CityLit, London

Look What Art Found
Bilbao Edition
17 August ~ 31 September 2020
Miniature Canvas Hide n Seek Giveaway
@LookWhatArtFound


Dovetail_Cola de Milano
With Ilex Talla
Centro Sociocultural Santa Marta
15 May ~ 16 June 2019
Santiago de Compostela


El Espazo Entre ~ The Space between
14 May - 1 June 2016
Moha Rúa Nova
Santiago de Compostela, Spain


Lusco & Fusco
Santiago de Compostela
Sept. 1, 2015 - Sept. 30, 2015

The Space Between - 'O Espazo entre'
A Trisca, Santiago de Compostela
April 25, 2015 - May 23, 2015


The Other Art Fair
Ambika P3, London
April 24, 2014 - April 27, 2014


New Artist Fair
Candid Galleries, London
March 11, 2014 - March 14, 2014