Valeria Dardano was born in Catanzaro, Italy in1993 and spent her childhood in the small town of Albi, located in the southern region of Calabria.

Distinguished by her versatility, in 2013 she started taking part in various exhibitions as well as national and international art residencies. Her work is defined by continuous artistic research regarding the investigation of environmental dynamics, the contemporary connection between humankind and nature, and on the resulting awareness of how lasting and inconclusive these connections are.

 In 2014 Valeria obtained her Bachelors Degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Catanzaro, Italy. She graduated with a degree in visual and performing arts disciplines, specializing in sculpture.  In 2015 she continued her art studies in Castellòn de la plana, Spain. In 2017 she obtained her Master's Degree in Sculpture from the Accademia Albertina di Belle Arti in Turin, Italy.

Valeria Dardano currently lives and works in Turin, Italy.

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Valeria Dardano's research is pervaded by the wish of knowing what the world looks like beyond the ending, the subject, the meaning with a disappearing horizon; in a world where what disappears keeps leading a life in hiding together with its supernatural effects.

Her works are enlivened by the lust for the unknown and the wonderment around the obscure and inexplicable, giving the viewer a glimmer of a distant past forgotten in time. Perhaps, it was a time that never existed. A time where shapes and concepts collided and intertwined, linked to the only the perception of time and to the footprints left by an existence in transit in an empty space, exhorting its investigation through twisted articulation.

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