Susana Talayero
Susana Talayero's work explores the relationship between painting, support and the space it occupies (based on assemblages based on the idea of precariousness and rupture), to create her own enigmatic ecosystem in which figures from the plant/animal and human imaginary take centre stage, surrealistically exchanging their qualities to become archetypes or metaphors. In this way, the portraits take on a zoomorphic character, while the animals correspond to human forms.
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.
