Gabriel Valansi
Bio
Gabriel Valansi is an audiovisual artist, photographer, musician, and Full Professor of Audiovisual Design and Photography at the University of Buenos Aires. He has also worked as a critic, curator, and juror in various contemporary photography and visual arts awards. His practice encompasses photography, video, music, generative works, and interactive visual and sound installations. Valansi has represented Argentina at several international biennials, and his works are part of both public and private collections. He lives and works in Buenos Aires.
Main Solo Exhibitions
2023 – System Preferences (with Andrea Ostera), Museo Castagnino, Rosario, Argentina
– The Man of the 20th Century, ArtHaus, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2022 – System Preferences (with Andrea Ostera), CC JL Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2021 – Friction, Museum of Immigrants, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2018 – The History of the World, ROLF Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– Circa (Babel), Bienal Sur, Neuquén, Argentina
2017 – Mobile, Bienal Sur, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– The Pompeii Premise, CCK, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2016 – Circa, Montevideo Biennial, Uruguay
2014 – Surrender Radio, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2013 – Circa, OK Museum, Linz, Austria
2012 – Circa, Havana Biennial, Cuba
2010 – MAD, Les Rencontres d’Arles, Arles, France
2008 – Babel, Fundación YPF, Buenos Aires, Argentina
– The History of the World, 41st International Salon of Cali, Colombia
2005 – Friction, 41st National Salon of Colombia
– Antiaircraft, Plaza de Mayo, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2004 – Abstract, 1:72, Museum of Modern Art, Buenos Aires
2003 – Epilogue, 18th Havana Biennial, Cuba
– Amateur, Luisa Pedrouzo Gallery, Buenos Aires
2000 – Zeitgeist, ICI, Buenos Aires
1998 – Fatherland, Photo Gallery, Teatro General San Martín, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1997 – Asunción, Centro Cultural Español, Asunción, Paraguay
1996 – Pornographies, Municipal Exhibition Center, Santa Fe Province, Argentina
1992 – Fashion Photos, CAYC, Buenos Aires
1989 – Photographs, CCCBA
1983 – Photographs, Municipal Exhibition Center, Chivilcoy, Buenos Aires Province
1982 – Common Spaces, Casa de la Cultura, Jerusalem, Israel
– Photographs, Theatre (unspecified location)
Statement
Gabriel Valansi’s Atlantis unfolds as an inquiry into the fragile relationship between technology, perception, and the limits of human control. Continuing his exploration of how visual memory intertwines with the degradation of information, Valansi delves into the “error zones” of 3D printing — spaces where machines falter and algorithms misfire. In these fractures, he discovers new architectures: ghostly ruins of data turned matter, born not from precision but from collapse. By subverting the logic of production, he reveals a hidden poetics within technological failure, where each glitch becomes a trace of lost meaning and a reflection on our dependence on digital creation.
The myth of Atlantis serves as both metaphor and mirror. Just as the legendary civilization was said to be destroyed by the excess of its own progress, Valansi’s Atlantis exposes the perils of innovation unrestrained — a warning embedded in the very material of its making. The distorted 3D fragments evoke impossible architectures of a world undone by its inventions, echoing contemporary anxieties about artificial intelligence, automation, and the opacity of algorithmic systems. Through this visionary archaeology, Valansi transforms technological malfunction into a space for meditation, reminding us that the collapse of control may be the beginning of a new way of seeing.
2.5 x 4m / 98.4 x 157 in
