Valentina Attolini Mexico, b. 1998

Valentina Attolini (b. 1998, Mexico) is a visual artist working between Mexico City and the United Kingdom. Her work emerges from the body as a site where internal and external forces converge. Through painting and drawing, she explores materiality and sensory experience as fields of transformation, approaching subtle spaces in which meaning begins to take shape.

 

Attolini articulates her practice through the tension between opposites, examining how desire and pain, beauty and violence, calm and ecstasy can coexist within a single space. Her work resists closure or resolution, seeking to reveal what often remains invisible: the internal, embodied experience — a space of living intensities that insist on taking form.

 

She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Visual Arts at the Escuela Nacional de Pintura, Escultura y Grabado “La Esmeralda” in Mexico City, and furthered her studies at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Arts de Paris-Cergy. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the TEAR Tracey Emin Artist Residency in Margate, United Kingdom. Her work has been presented in solo exhibitions such as Sonámbulos: los párpados lloran (Espacio Unión, 2024) and Es un lugar que no existe (RAM, 2023), as well as in various group exhibitions in Mexico City and London. She received the Jóvenes Creadores grant from the Sistema de Apoyos a la Creación y Proyectos Culturales (SACPC) in 2019 and 2024.