Valeria Degli Agostini was born on 16 June 1989 in Padua. In 2015 she graduated in Visual Arts at the IUAV of Venice and embarks on a professional journey as a motion graphic designer in various companies in Padua, where she has the opportunity to create video content for immersive and multimedia installations.
She enrolled at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice in September 2020 to experiment with an approach of union between traditional arts and new media.
Since 2022 she has been creating artistic installations working with various technologies including lasers, virtual and augmented reality, 3D printing, always maintaining a “phygital” approach of synergy between virtuality and matter, between digital and analogic techniques.
STATEMENT
“If man had a pink filter before his eyes, he would only know the existence of the color pink.” Man is able to perceive the world only through the tools he possesses, the senses. If something existed beyond the reach of the senses, he would not be able to know it.
I started by exploring the possibilities of painting and continued my journey by including new technological approaches. Technology allows us to increase the perceptive possibilities of the senses, through new tools and devices. Virtual reality is an example of revelation of something invisible, overlapping in the same space and time as physical reality, but accessible only through special viewers.
The unknowable is a theme around which my research has always centered.
Transparencies, reflections, transformations and illusions of a light treated as pictorial matter, an impalpable, ephemeral, moving matter, whose essence still remains ambiguous and hybrid. An attempt at voyeurism beyond the veil of maya, in search of still unknown dynamics, timidly keeping at hand the baggage of universal questions that every thinking being has in common.
My intent is to create a balance between virtuality and matter, between soul and body, through the union of digital and analogue techniques, through a "phygital" approach, trying to capture the essence of the time in which I live, a time constituted by the fragment, by instantaneity, by hybridization, by transformation, by the posthuman, a time in which the advancement of thought does not keep pace with the exponential technological development brought forward by man and by technology itself.
