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Valentin Torrens (Born in a worker class family. Huesca, Spain, in 1951) is a internationally recognized installation and performance artist, theorist and educator based in Barcelona. He studied fine arts, painting, sculpture, engraving (1968-73) and Restoration (1977-80) at Fac.Bellas Artes, Barcelona. His work was originally based on painting. Later on he embraced a wide variety of media including photography, sculpture, installation and performance art. From 1983 to 1992, sculpture is his activity. Assembling found junk materials, allowing him to transcend the original use to get poetical, philosophical suggestions. Alchemy transforming the human energy remaining in the objects after use. Lightness, momentary subtle balance following a meaning. In some works, elements are extended on walls, corners and floor, near the installation. His sculptures have been exhibited in Spain and internationally in Andorra, Canada, Egypt, France, Holland, Italy. Mar roc, Portugal, U.K. His installations at the studio from 1985 are getting the real development at two big installations inside the Staatsliedengreep festival (Amsterdam 1987) Based on the context, site-specific works in response to themes concerning the time and social request from the installation place, for public spaces and art centres of Canada, Holland, Ireland, Mexico, Poland, Spain and U.K. Performance art has been his main practice. Since 1990 until now he has been performing around the world, widely in thirty countries of America, Asia, Europe and Africa. In art centres, museums, festivals and public spaces. His concerns are the use and reward of the Medias. Perception as desire source and limit. The politics of perception and its liberation. The social shaping of the meaning. Communication as suggestion. He creates a visual poetry in unconventional languages, breaking, challenging the performative language resources with changing strategies. Decoding the accommodations of art and culture, their connivance with the horror. A double code - real/illusion- of the artists as a shadow and the context's one, exchanging and transforming mutually. Humour and liminal game, short-circuiting the logic of language and audience's mind.Actions made under dim light, stressing the direct perception, rather than promoting visual documentation He has lectured on performance at fine arts faculties of Bucharest, Montevideo, Helsinki, Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Guangzhou, Mexico, Yaoundé, Toronto; also in art centres of Canada, Dominican Rep. Mexico, Argentina, Spain, Indonesia, China, He gave performance workshops from 2005-13 in Santiago de Chile, Helsinki, Puerto Plata, Montevideo, Nowe Zamky, Sao Paulo, Kosice and Santo Domingo. As editor he published three referential books on performance pedagogy, collecting university courses and workshop syllabus from 42 performance artists and teachers. Pedagogía de la performance (DPH, Huesca. 2007, sold out) Enseñando performance (Outskirtspress. Denver 2014) How we teach performance art (Outskirtspress. Denver 2014) From 2000 to 2014 He coordinated the performance area within the multifestival Periferias, Huesca; Trobada d'art, natura i tecnologìa in 1993, La Floresta; Territoris Nomades in 2001, Barcelona. He has coped his art work with teaching visual language as a secondary education teacher job.