Interested in the object-language connections and the gendered body, Kim Kölle Valentine uses timing, pacing, and assemblages to expand space and create a layering of histories and meanings.
Kim Kölle Valentine is a visual and media artist. Her work has been presented in solo shows at Dazibao (Montréal, CA), LUX (London, UK), VOX (Montréal, CA), Sporobole (Sherbrooke, CA) and k48 (Vienna, AT). Her work has also been widely shown in group exhibitions and screenings, including the Kassel Documentary Film and Video Festival, WRO Biennale, FIFA Experimental (Montréal), Oberhausen International Short Film Festival, MIX NYC, and Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires). She has been an artist in residence at KulturKontakt (Vienna, AT), Aberystwyth Arts Centre (UK), The Red Mansion Foundation (Beijing, CN), and International Studio and Curatorial Program (Brooklyn, US). She is currently a PhD student in Film & Digital Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
The Coldest Day of the Year
Video / 08:36 / 2020
The Coldest Day of the Year takes place in a future where a cataclysmic event has made tracing a coherent meaning of the past and recounting a narrative of the present impossible. The narrator believes she has seen another being in this destroyed landscape. She attempts to find this figure and recounts a journey that traces the shadows of her presence. Using temporary sets, props and collaged images, The Coldest Day of the Year recounts an attempt to understand an ever-shifting horizon and the possibility of dwelling. This work was created after reading The Wall by Marlen Haushofer as a speculative response. Created as part of the LUX Creation and Dissemination Residency, a partnership between Videographe, Main Film, PRIM, and OBORO.
The Decameron I
HD Video / 03:08 / 2021
‘Our Selves Unknown’ takes the 1965 Architectural Press publication ‘Landscape in Distress’ as its raw material, reconfiguring its photographic illustrations, text and cover design into pencil and ink drawings, using a working process of self-enforced rules and restrictions, obstacles and chance.
Today I Did Nothing
HD Video / 08:20 / 2022
Through a whirlwind of images, Today I Did Nothing proposes a hybrid essay narrative that weaves together quotes and ideas using a collection of objects. The work creates a personal archive, repeating its imagery to entice the viewer into its visual universe while at the same time presenting difficult contradictions about desires, impulses and formation through objects.