Valentina Gelain: ‘A Veil of Reason over the Unconscious’

Completion year: 2025

Technique: Video HD, stereo channel, colors, sound, 16:9

Size: variable dimensions

Duration: 5min 24sec

Edition: 8 + 2 P.A.

Keywords: Valentina Gelain, A veil of reason over the unconscious, The Peaks, Video Art

'The Peaks' project , 2022-present

The video was made for the fifth issue of the digital poetry journal Kontradiktion.

Exhibitons/ Art events: ´The Shell Cracked´ duo exhibition at Art Centre Itä (Lappeenranta, Finland, October-November 2025); Screening of previous contributions during the release of issue #6 by Kontradiktion journal of digital and experimental poetry, editors Hilda Forss & Heidi von Wright, as part of Litteraturhelg program by Svenska Österbottens Litteraturförening at Platform (Vaasa, Finland, 11 October 2025); Release of issue #5 by Kontradiktion journal of digital and experimental poetry, editors Anders E Larsson & Heidi von Wright, during Hangö Teatertäff (Hangö, Finland, 6 June 2025) and at Rönnells Antikvariat (Stockholm, Sweden, 14 June 2025); ´The Shell Cracked´ duo exhibition at Korsnäs Library (Korsnäs, Finland, March 2026); ´The Shell Cracked´ duo exhibition at Pleiku Gallery (Berlin, Germany, May 2026).

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