Valentina Peri is an independent curator 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, media histories and technologies in the Anthropocene. She has curated exhibitions, published writing and given lectures on a broad range of topics in these areas, including data collection and surveillance, the commodification of desire, representation and identity, media ecologies and new materialism. Her travelling exhibition Data Dating has been presented in France, Israel and the UK between 2018 et 2020. In the context of this group show, she co-edited an essay collection published by Intellect: Data Dating. Love, Technology, Desire (2021).
In 2021 she joined as a Guest Curator peer-to-space, an independent exhibition platform based in Berlin, that realizes virtual and IRL exhibitions. Every month, she organises and moderates international online and IRL events (conferences, thematic presentations, studio and exhibition visits, webinars, performances…) that create links between artists and art professionals. She has given talks about love and technology at ZKM (Karlsruhe), Watermans Art Centre (London), Université Paris VIII (Paris), Accademia di Brera (Milan) and PSL (Paris), among others.
She is a co-founder of SALOON Paris: an international and diverse network of women identifying art professionals, in Paris and many other cities (1000 members).
From 2011-21, Valentina Peri was associate director and curator at Galerie Charlot Paris – Tel Aviv, where she curated numerous exhibitions with internationally renowned artists, such as Quayola, Eduardo Kac, Sabrina Ratté, Manfred Mohr, !Mediengruppe Bitnik and Addie Wagenknecht.
Valentina regularly writes critical texts for artists, art galleries and institutions, published in catalogues, books and the press. Valentina studied cultural anthropology and art history in Italy and France. She lives and works in Paris.
