Santiago Tamayo Soler

Santiago Tamayo Soler + Marcela Borquez Schwarzbeck
Thursday February 20, 6pm
Artist Talk

Join us for a discussion with artist Santiago Tamayo Soler about his project Veneno en la Sangre, in conversation with the author of the exhibition text!

“Veneno en la Sangre evokes an inherited curse, an inevitable fatal destiny. Through this exhibition, Santiago Tamayo Soler draws on the telenovela, a deeply ingrained phenomenon in the Latin American imaginary, to explore relationships shaped by coloniality, extractivism, and patriarchy from a queer and speculative perspective. […] The telenovela, as an inherited structure, has conditioned emotional, familial, and gender dynamics for generations. In Tamayo Soler’s work, its traditional archetypes are subverted, with romantic and homoerotic elements introducing new tensions to masculinity, care, and desire. The oft-idealized Latin American landscape is reimagined as a barren, toxic environment. Through a post-apocalyptic lens, the work exposes extractivist economies, where sustenance and death are two sides of the same coin, confronting the question: Is survival possible under these conditions?”

— Marcela Borquez Schwarzbeck