Valerie Salez
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Valerie Salez is an anti-disciplinary artist whose practice includes performance, video, photography, sculpture, installation, and collage. Often relying on provisional materials, her work has been framed as arte povera and/or situationist in nature. Her social art projects deal with inequality, oppression, and destruction at the hands of colonial resource extraction. Her solo works dive into mystic and spiritual realms in the face of colonial imbalance. Salez has exhibited extensively at university art galleries, artist run centres, alternative spaces, and city-wide outdoor festivals. Her large-scale collage works and sculptures are in private collections, provincial permanent collections, and the Canada Council Art Bank. Valerie is Catalan, Polish/Hungarian, and has lived most of her life in the Yukon on Southern Tutchone, Tlingit, and Han traditional territories and currently dwells on unceded Coast Salish territories around so called Victoria, British Columbia.Valerie Salez, 2024
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grunt gallery Programming Archive (Artist)Related program
Play, Fall, Rest, Dance (Artist)Related Archive, Library & Publication Objects
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