Valentina Peri is an independent curator, artist and author based in Paris.
Her work examines the role of technology in contemporary culture, with a focus on love and intimacy in the digital age.
She has curated exhibitions, published writing and given lectures on a broad range of topics in these areas.
Her travelling exhibition Data Dating about love in the Internet age has been presented in Paris, London, Tel Aviv, Brussels, Geneva, Brescia between 2018 to 2022. In the context of this exhibition, she co-edited an essay collection published by Intellect: Data Dating. Love, Technology, Desire (2021).
In 2022, she started researching the phenomenon of Internet romance scams in Ghana, and published the book “The New Romance Scammer’s Instructor”, a collection of original messages from Ghanaian love scammers. In 2023 she continued this research in Ivory Coast and edited the collection, “Le brouteur galant. Manuel de l’arnaqueur sentimental” a collection of love texts from ivorian romance scammers (known as “brouteurs”), published in 2024 by Editions UV.
She was one of the artists in residence of the European program BEYOND MATTER Eu at Tirana Art Lab (Albania), where she realized “Her Boyfriend Came Back from the War” (2022), an augmented reality project based on the photographic archive of her grandfather during World War II.
In 2022, she received a Fluxus Art Projects Grant for her curatorial research on the history of dating and technology before Internet that was presented as an exhibition at Watermans London in 2023: The Museum of Dating. In this context, she presented her film “Joan Ball. The Lady of Computer Dating” (2023, 35’). The french version of the Museum of Dating, Le musée des rencontres, has been presented at Chroniques Biennale 2024-25 (Marseille/Aix).
In 2025 she curated Artificial Intimacies, a group show drawing parallels between the manipulation of online romance scammers and the growing presence of companion chatbots apps based on Artificial Intelligence.
From 2011-21, Valentina was associate director and curator at Galerie Charlot, a gallery specializing in new media art.
Valentina is also a co-founder of SALOON Paris, an international and diverse network of women identifying art professionals, in Paris and many other cities, part of the SALOON Network (+1500 members).
