I refused to settle into a category.
Life is a mess,
one less ugly mess than the other.

Projects 2009–2025

Loreto Valenzuela

^{Selected
works
Practice as research
Performance · visual practice · interdisciplinary collaborations.} Printable dossier (PDF)

LIFE IS MESSY
<ONE MESS LESS UGLY THAN THE OTHER>

Egress
[2016]
Material Eggbox
15 x 25 x 20 cm
Exhibition Periferica Cambridge Sustainability Residency.

in[vi]sible [2009]
Choreographing chaos and catastrophy.
Wolfson College Cambridde
Performance .

I.S.I. T [ich sehe ich tun]
Performance.

Ich sehe, ich tun is a performance inspired by Nikolaus Kriegeskorte’s neuroscience research on visual perception and the brain’s coding of animacy. His studies reveal that our neural responses differ when we see living beings versus inanimate objects—the brain lights up in distinct patterns, suggesting that perception itself is shaped by our expectation of life or agency. The work translates these insights into embodied action, exploring how seeing becomes a form of doing, and how the act of perception blurs the boundary between observer and observed.

I.S.I.T Performance in Aboutness 2013. Cambridge Science Festival.

36 shades of grey.
[2013]
Charcoal on a tray of eggs.
35 x 35 cm.all that shines isnt silver.
[2013]
Installation
300 x 205 cm
Aboutness

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[2013]
rock in alluminium foil
110 x 120 x 165 cm
Aboutness .}

Tit-for-tat [2013]
Graphine and charcoal on paper
150 x 300 cm

Wiederholung [2016]
Three channel film.
60 x 50 cm.