Born in 1995 in Basilicata (Italy), based in Milan (Italy).
An industrial torch burning alone in a field, a flash of light behind a mountain, water that is nearly evanescent. Light becomes a hazy alterity, a foreign entity or a link between earthly secrets and celestial depths. Valeria Limongi's studies in astronomy shine through in the images she composes, science-fictional, almost dystopian. We navigate strangely familiar landscapes, between dusk and dawn, purplish greens and distortions of forgotten echoes.
Contemporary landscapes are irrevocably marked by human activity: intensive monocultures, heavy metal spills in water, habitat destruction... Growing extractivism impacts each geographical typology differently depending on its geological, political, economic and social specificities. These human marks are often invisible to our eyes, accustomed to these imperceptible changes. Valeria Limongi highlights these traces through her visual and photographic practice. As through a perceptive prism, she reveals what lurks beneath the layers of reality, in the space between the present and the perceived. This suspended moment, at the edge of a dream, the edge of the woods, the edge of the night.
Written by Andrea Malapert.