Valentina Cadena Renza moves between installation and performance, her passion is to signal the perverse in the banal looking into the patterns between fascism, sex and spirituality. Valentina grew up in the aftermath of narcotraffic's aspirational fantasy, hardcore catholicism and the privilege of an early and unsupervised internet access. Her work is infected by netspeak, online piracy, pixelated glittery images and the inevitable delays and mistranslations that came with being situated in the “Global South”. Since the internet is estranged to the concept of ambiguity her work embraces stereotypes and the politically incorrect.
Her work has been exhibited in VEEM Theater (Amsterdam), Lugar a Dudas (Cali), Casas Riegner Gallery (Bogotá), Espacio Odeón (Bogotá), The Chamber of Commerce (Bogotá), Miguel Urrutia Museum (Bogotá), Hooogar (Guadalajara, México). In 2020, her project Malona Lakrata became part of La Tertulia Museum collection as part of the award Programa C-Digital Art.