Valeria Divinorum's Locus Amoenus: Into the 4th Dimension
The Lincoln Center Presents an installation by member artist Valeria Divinorum on view from 6:00–9:00 pm on September 29–October 8, 2023 at the Griffin Sidewalk Studio in David Geffen Hall. Admission is FREE and tickets are not required. Just show up!
The Hypercube at The Holocenter NYC, by Valeria Divonorum
Valeria in her studio getting ready for her show.
“In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato refers to human perception through cinematic projections of animated shadows onto a wall. Valeria Divinorum's work updates this idea using glass, a material that does not retain the light that passes through it; rather, it drags its colors and shapes. This is how we witness a changing spectacle such as a sunset, an eclipse or the formation of a rainbow. “A major theme in my work is the human connection with nature and the organic expressions that emerge from that relationship”, according to Divinorum.
There is a theatricality of forms. Much like the spectators in Plato’s Myth of the Cave, we do not look at the object itself, we see what it projects. Divinorum’s work challenges us to look beyond the projection, to widen our gaze. Locus Amoenus is a reference to the New Non-Euclidean geometries, which opened the doors of perception of hyperspace.
Text by Argentine stained glass artist Andres Jacob.
Artist & Architect: Valeria Divinorum
Design Consultant & Fabricator: Helen Blash Engineering: Elizabeth Kneissl
Lighting Designer: Jonathan Sims
Metal Artist and Fabricator: Juniper Fe
Grisaille Paintings on Glass: Silvia Weigel Muñoz
Video Artist & Projectionist: Hunter Lombard
Curators: Mimi Lien & Itohan Edoloyi
Valeria Divinorum is a Queens based visual artist and architect with formal training in the school of Architecture in Buenos Aires. She has attended residencies in Argentina and the US and has created works for a variety of contexts including galleries, live performances and site-specific installations. She is currently an Adjunct Professor of New Media Art at LaGuardia Community College and teaches art workshops at BronxWorks Senior Center. Recent exhibitions include Light and Shadow Rethinking Visual Spaces (Bronx, NY), Solstice (Governors Island), I Break (Venice, Italy), El Hipercubo (Buenos Aires, Arg.) Space Light (LIC, NY), Illusional (New York, NY), Rear Vision (Madrid, Spain) and Bangkok Biennale (Bangkok, Thailand). She has created light-based sculptural installations at Chashama (New York, NY), Centro Cultural Voces del Sur (Buenos Aires, Arg.), The Plaxall Gallery (Queens, NY), Flux Factory (LIC, NY), The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY) and others. In 2013 she started her research of the process of Tiffany technique and the principles of sacred geometry with her mentor, Andres Jacob at Taller Escuela del Sur in Buenos Aires, Argentina. She is a member of the collective Salvia Divinorum, a recipient of the 2021 NYC Artist Corps Grant. Press for her work includes NY Post, BronxNet TV, Stir, 440 Gallery, Time Out NY, NY1.com, Mott Haven Herald among others. She has a passion for creating works for the public and with the public, to embrace connectedness and democratize art making for people in our community.
To reach Valeria or learn more about her work, see her instagram and website.