Valinia Svoronou’s approach aligns with artistic research, where art serves as a methodology for knowledge production. Her artistic practice navigates the intersections of history, technology, and storytelling, exploring cultural and technological moments with both personal and collective sensitivity. Through text, moving images, apps, prints, and sculptures, she constructs layered narratives that challenge dominant histories, offering spaces for reimagining an empowered future or an alternative past.
Growing up in Athens as part of an immigrant family from Istanbul and Minor Asia, she is deeply engaged with the historical exchanges and conflicts between what we have come to call the East and the West, and how these tensions continue to shape the present. Her work delves into histories of migration, displacement, and cultural entanglements—while also embracing the myths, symbols, and informal knowledge systems that emerge from these movements, including oral storytelling, gossip, and craft.
A central focus of her practice lies in uncovering untold women’s histories and their presence within patriarchal, postcolonial structures. She draws from creative strategies of resistance and empowerment—science fiction, subcultures, ritual, myth, and mystical narratives—to create counter-narratives that challenge hegemonic storytelling. These elements function as acts of remembrance and speculation, offering alternative modes of understanding history and imagining new futures.