Susana Talayero
Susana Talayero's work explores the relationships between painting, support and space through cumulative montages. Her paintings, in a playful exercise with abstraction and ambiguous figurative elements, form an ecosystem of work that listens to the raw and euphoric logic of the material. The processes of impregnation, chance and spillage, the use of encaustic and the gesture of assembling paintings with material residues come together in a practice where the fragmentary, a central and constitutive element, invites the creation of links between different areas of work. Pieces and installations make an apology for the hybrid and the processual and construct underground imaginaries in which other media, such as video, coexist. Some central questions: the clash between the uncertain that looms and the atavistic that persists; that large formats engulf the body; drawing by painting; throwing oneself first and letting ideas come later; working with memory, altering it.
Susana Talayero (Bilbao, 1961) lives and works in Bilbao. After graduating in Fine Arts from the UPV/EHU, she moved to Rome, where she lived for ten years. Back in Bilbao in 1996, her work in the field of painting and drawing extended to video essays. His current practice explores the relationship between painting and space through large-format cumulative assemblages. Recent exhibitions include: Un fondo blanco que nunca estuvo limpio (2025), Bulegoa z/b, Bilbao; Meteora (2024) CarrerasMugica, Bilbao; Relatos de entrenamiento CAB, Burgos (2018); Una certa organizzazione delle cose, AOC F58, Rome (2017) and Crónica inquieta 1986-2016. Susana Talayero, Bilbao Fine Arts Museum (2016). In 2023, she was awarded the Gure Artea prize for her artistic career.
