Valentina Triet’s Of Manners, of Trips at Akwa Ibom continues the ongoing Provider series through newly developed videos that extend the series’ evolving form across time. Drawing from runway presentations that traverse different historical moments of fashion image culture, from 1980s prêt-à-porter and haute couture shows to recent livestreamed presentations, Provider reprocesses these circulated images into diffuse visual fields while leaving their original soundtracks intact. Through this disjunction, the works redistribute relations between image, sound, atmosphere, and context. As silhouettes, fabrics, gestures, and narrative codes dissolve into dispersions of colour and movement, rhythm, sequencing, and affect remain operative after representational clarity dissolves. Separated from the aspirational logic of the runway image, the recordings begin to function less as representations of fashion than as mutable perceptual environments through which cultural memory, influence, aspiration, and historical distinction continue to circulate.
Valentina Triet (born 1991 in Winterthur, Switzerland) is a contemporary visual artist known for her moving-image installations and video art. She currently lives and works between Vienna, Austria, and Zurich, Switzerland.
This project was produced in collaboration with Phileas – The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art. Phileas supports artists, curators, galleries and institutions in Austria and works to strengthen their voice on the international landscape of contemporary art. Through long-term partnerships with museums, biennials and art institutions around the world, Phileas enables the production and exhibition of new artworks and their donation to public collections. For more information, please see www.phileas.art The project also received support from Carved to Flow Foundation, with special thanks to Felix Gaudlitz Gallery and Part International Art Residency Austria. Technical production: Aggelos Paitakis.
