Valentina Alvarado Matos is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work addresses issues related to memory and territory through a dialogue with the materiality of film, paper, voice or ceramics. Her practice, close to collage, braids reflections on diasporic identity, memory and landscape. Her pieces have been exhibited at Docs Kingdom, Artium, Pesaro Film Festival, Viennale, International Film Festival Rotterdam, L'Alternativa, Oberhausen, Festival Punto de Vista, Ambulante, XCentric, SFCinemateque, S8 Mostra Cine Periférico, Loop Festival, Cinemateca Madrid, Filmoteca de Cataluña, Microscope Gallery, Los Angeles Film Forum - 2220 Arts, Conde Duque Madrid, Salzburger Kunstverein, Fabra i Coats, Arts Santa Mònica, Fundación Sala Mendoza, among others.
She has been an artist in residence at Hangar, La Escocesa, Cultura. Resident - Museu Bellas Artes Castellón, Fora de Camp, The Liaison of Independent Filmmakers of Toronto and Matadero Madrid.
Some of her films are part of the catalog of the distribution company Light Cone and the XCèntric Archive.
At the beginning of 2024, she had a solo exhibition with Carlos Vásquez Méndez at La Capella and La Virreina Centro de la Imagen in Barcelona.
Valentina combines her artistic practices with teaching and giving workshops in places like EICTV Cuba, Master Lav, Can Felipa, La Massana, EINA, among others.