Valentina Triet
Akwa Ibom, Greece
8 June - 29 July 2026
Founded in 2019, Akwa Ibom is a non-profit exhibition space in Athens that approaches curating like editing a book – exploring how exhibitions can live on through photography and text. It focuses on experimental documentation and embraces the challenges of translating complex formats and ideas into other forms. Akwa Ibom brings together works from diverse disciplines, places and histories to uncover shared sensibilities and create new narratives.
Valentina Triet’s first solo exhibition in Greece titled Of Manners, of Trips continues the ongoing Provider series through newly developed videos that extend the series’ evolving form across time. Drawing from runway presentations that traverse different historical moments of fashion image culture, from 1980s prêt-à-porter and haute couture shows to recent livestreamed presentations, Provider reprocesses these circulated images into diffuse visual fields while leaving their original soundtracks intact. Through this disjunction, the works redistribute relations between image, sound, atmosphere, and context. As silhouettes, fabrics, gestures, and narrative codes dissolve into dispersions of colour and movement, rhythm, sequencing, and affect remain operative after representational clarity dissolves. Separated from the aspirational logic of the runway image, the recordings begin to function less as representations of fashion than as mutable perceptual environments through which cultural memory, influence, aspiration, and historical distinction continue to circulate.
Valentina Triet (born 1991 in Winterthur) currently lives and works between Vienna and Zurich. Her practice spans drawing, photography, sculpture and video. She deals with techniques of orientation in architecture, infrastructure and landscape. She is interested in how certain patterns and arrangements help organise our surroundings, shaping how we think and move, but also limit certain perspectives. Her art plays with both recognisable forms and abstract elements, treating them as equals rather than placing one above the other.
This is her first collaboration with Phileas.
This exhibition was aided by a research trip to Vienna by the curator Maya Tounta, organised by Phileas in February 2024, and by her participation in the PART – Prater Art Residency Austria in July 2025.
