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Amanda Valle is a multidisciplinary artist born in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. Living an ordinary and settled life, Amanda decided to fill her time by drawing the worlds and colours living in her mind with the views from the window becoming her first muses for her self-expression.
Soon, Amanda left the island and moved to the USA which eventually led her to participate in several events, such as Art Basel Miami 2017, Salone del Mobile Milan 2018 (Nilufar Gallery). Her latest work, the short film “Back in the Island” has been selected in over 15 festivals winning Best Generation Award, Best Cinematography and Best Dominican Documentary. She is also represented by Molin Corvo Gallery in Paris, France.
Today, she lives and works between the Dominican Republic and New York dedicating her time to painting and art experimentation.
Amanda Valle, in her earlier days, was working part-time filing and organizing documents.
For weeks she sat next to a paper shredder robotically destroying sheets of confidential information while she restlessly engaged with the machine. To her despair, the machine would often get stuck every half-hour, due to the excess of sheets that she wanted to destroy at the same time. Amidst monotonous work, a divorce and other scourges, life was growing on her just like the pile of papers at work. And that’s where her inspiration of Latent Life seeded. Amanda believed in the latitude of life—of its misfortunes and happiness, of the emotions that certain other people’s stories provoke in us all leading to falling in love, giving everything to it and embracing life.
Latent Life is a pile of taxes, routine check-ups, inconsistencies, excel sheets, new hires, confidential guest lists, and failed plans for a fourth marriage, shredded, stacked, and enclosed in different cubes to share the most beautiful stories of emotions.
The 33 digital crystal cubes align as the body and the papers inside are the soul to various phases of Amanda’s life. The stack of papers within shares 10 years of provoking reflection on time and what has been achieved. The rotation of the cube represents life on its own. The ups and downs; polarized. It is a visualization of life cycles and that hope that everything changes for the better.
