Valeska Soares’ work mobilizes time, memory and fiction to reveal the imaginative
potential of absence and the construction of meaning through partial images. Emptiness and transience form a network of tensions materialized in her installations, films, paintings, sculptures and assemblages. These conceptual articulations are evident as much in her choice of materials as in the spatial combinations they allow. Mirrors, book covers, found paintings and packaging are manipulated, shuffled, cut out and rearranged, ushering in relations between intimacy and estrangement, architecture and the body, matter and thought.

Among her recent solo exhibitions are Equivalentes, Fortes D’Aloia & Gabriel, São Paulo, Brazil (2022); Entrementes, Estação Pinacoteca, São Paulo, Brazil (2019); Any Moment Now, Phoenix Museum, Phoenix, USA (2018) e Unfold, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA (2017). She has also participated in the group show; Fullgás – Artes visuais e anos 1980 no Brasil, CCBB – Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil (2024); Brasil Futuro: Formas da Democracia, Museu da República, Brasília, Brazil (2023); Movement: The Legacy of Kineticism, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA (2022), 16h Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France (2022); GLASSTRESS, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, USA (2021) and Understudies, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany(2021).

Valeska Soares has works in important public collections, such as the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA; Daros Foundation, Zurich, Switzerland; Fundação Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil; Fundación “La Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA; Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho, Brazil; LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; MAC-USP, Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; MACBA – Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; MAM – Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte da Pampulha, Belo Horizonte, Brazil; MARCO – Museu de Arte Contemporáneo, Monterrey, Mexico; MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA; MoMA – The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Pinacoteca do Estado de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Nova York, USA and Tate Modern, London, Reino Unido