Valentina Furian is a visual artist whose practice, rooted in moving images and time-based installations, explores the evolving relationship between human beings and the natural world. Her work investigates the boundary between reality and fiction, employing a cinematographic approach that merges documentary experimentation with narrative fiction. At the core of her research is an exploration of interspecific relationships, where human and non-human entities intersect, revealing the wild within the everyday.

Furian’s artistic practice is informed by posthuman theses, which challenge conventional notions of human identity and subjectivity. Posthuman thought, increasingly prevalent in contemporary discourse, proposes a reevaluation of human nature by embracing a nomadic, transversal subjectivity that transcends traditional boundaries between human, animal, and the Earth itself.

Central to Furian’s work is the theme of domestication, which she explores through its dual role in both human and animal histories. Her research explores how the human act of domestication—by subjugating nature—parallels a process of self-domestication, where human beings are simultaneously emancipated from their wild origins and subjected to social constructs.

Through her films, performances, and photography, Furian aims to rediscover a primordial state of being that reconnects human existence to its ferial roots.

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In 2025 she was part of the main program of ArtCity for Modern Art Museum of Bologna curated by Caterina Molteni and Lorenzo Balbi.

In 2024 she opened her solo show "Notti Bianche" curated by Paola Nicolin at XNL, Piacenza. She presented her film "Ciacco" at Cinema Underground, curated by Irene Calderoni for Gallerie d'Italia in Turin and her film " Centauro" was presented by TBD Ultramagazine at Teatrino di Palazzo Grassi, Pianult Collection, Venice. In the same year she participated at Biennale Gherdëina curated by Lorenzo Giusti with Marta Papini and she won the New York Prize with ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, (US).

In 2023 she was artist in residency at Proa21, PROA Foundation, Buenos Aires (AR) in collaboration with GAMeC, Bergamo and she was selected for the project Nuovo Forno del Pane with MAMbo | Museum of Modern Art in Bologna (IT). In the same year her work was exhibited at Fondazione Stelline, Milan (IT) and at MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome (IT).  In 2022 she presented her work at the Rencontres Internationales Paris / Berlin festival (FR). In 2021 she participated in the show Encounter the Imagination at Pearl Art Museum in Shanghai (CN), she presented her video at Re-Creatures at Il Mattatoio, Rome (IT), and in the exhibition Resisting the Trouble - Moving Images in Time of Crisis with VISIO and Lo Schermo dell’Arte, Firenze (IT).

Over the years she worked with institutional and experimental spaces such as ISCP – International Studio & Curatorial Program, New York, (US); Fondazione Proa, Buenos Aires (AR); Pearl Art Museum, Shanghai (CN); Rencontres Internationales | Paris Berlin, IIC Paris, (FR); Sunaparanta Center for Contemporary Art Goa, IIC Mumbai, (IND); Collezione Farnesina, MAXXI – National Museum of XXI Century Arts in Rome, MUSE – Science Museum of Trento, MAMbo – Museum of Modern Art of Bologna, The Blank Contemporary Art – Bergamo, Casa Capra – Vicenza, Fondazione Stelline, Chez PLINIO, Case Chiuse, CareOf, ViaFarini – Milan, Bevilacqua la Masa Foundation, Microclima – Venice, Cinema Visionario – Udine (IT); Goyki3 Art Inkubator, Sopot, (PL); , Graz, (AT).