Bio

Born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Valeska Soares lived and worked in Brooklyn, NY from 1992 to 2021, when she returned to Brazil.  Soares’ work mobilizes time, memory, and fiction to reveal the imaginative potential of absence and the construction of meaning from partial images. Emptiness, transience, and impermanence form a field of tensions materialized in her installations, films, paintings, sculptures, and assemblages. These conceptual articulations are evident both in her choice of materials and in the spatial combinations they allow. Mirrors, book covers, found canvases, and packaging are manipulated, shuffled, cut out, and rearranged, creating relationships between intimacy and estrangement, architecture and the body, matter and thought.