Intravenus is a multimedia series developed by Riley Valentine between 2021 and 2023,

culminating in its debut exhibition in February 2025 in Logan Square, Chicago.

The installation featured 32 inkjet prints, 17 instant photographs, multiple slide projectors,

CRTV video installations, a locket containing miniature photographs, and a projection of the

accompanying short film onto silk. At its center stood a 30x30-inch illuminated lightbox

containing 75 strips of original Super 8 motion picture film, presented with magnifying glasses

to invite viewers into an intimate, tactile encounter with analog material.

Conceived as a reflection on the feminine condition, Intravenus explores exaggerated

archetypes through the perspective of a 19-year-old Midwesterner. The work navigates themes

of sexuality, identity, and play, embodied by friends of Valentine. Drawing on the tension

between fetish and purity, the series frames femininity as both constructed and performed -

highlighting its contradictions, pressures, and pleasures. Intravenus operates as a queer

archive of analog desire: compiling latent impulses and fleeting moments, reimagining the

erotic, and collapsing nostalgia with provocation. In the world of Intravenus, the feminine is

rendered as both spectacle and artifact - equal parts locket, striptease, and séance.

i am interested in showing intravenus in more cities and spaces. contact for more information

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