“BECOME AN OCEAN” SANTIAGO TALAVERA

 

The sea, as necessary as it is fearsome, has always been used by man's imagination to speak of his own fears and emotional states. Thus, a devastating storm or tidal wave was interpreted in terms of "the illusion of a just world" as a deserved punishment. Due to its strong symbolic charge carried over the centuries, the ocean has remained perpetually linked to artistic production.

 

En “Becoming an ocean” Santiago Talavera, (Cuenca, 1979) presents audiovisual poetry in the form of drawings, paintings and music,  which enter and exit through the windows of a miniature house. Looking through them, the espectador  becomes a spy and spectator of the minuscule. It will search  as in a dream, discovering and selecting details that offer a wide range of readings. Some doors open and others that reveal the remains of an unexpected arrival of nature. A great domestic tsunami, or rather taming.

 

The pieces are consciously made from the most personal universe of the artist, from the inside of the house to the outside and vice versa; unified in an exhibition project.

A project that speaks, in short, of a sudden and brutal event, destructive and regenerative like life itself, which stimulates our perception of the landscape, both natural and personal.