VALENTINE
AMARI





Valentine Amari is a Chicago-based syncretic artist with an A.B. in Visual Arts from Brown University who endeavors to develop a visual language that investigates love as a colorful transcendence blurring form and memory. This practice is rooted in the repetition & manipulation of gestures across time and location.

Made in Los Angeles.

multidimensional.
multifaceted.
multivitamin. 

valentine - a card sent, often anonymously, on St. Valentine's Day (February 14) to a person one loves or is attracted to.

amari - (latin) loved
constructing mythoi
avatars of love
primordial duality
manifested dreams
objects of power
materialities & subjectivities
idealism, irony, predetermination
fantasias of fantasies
chaotic thought
queer realities & decadence
absurdity & crudity
quotidian connection 
exchanges of information
matrilineal tradition
transfeminine hedonism
media synthesis
incomprehensibility
nonlinear perspective
unconscious interpretation
prophecies of reconstruction
celestial reverence
biological/technological/mythological
blackness as abstraction
ubiquity & omniprescence