Through drawing, painting or video, Santiago Talavera prefigures and reconstructs space by exploring the imaginative possibilities of nature. His scenes seem to shape a fragmented history where the recently occurred and the imminent open paths to speculation, and in which the conflicts derived from the relationship between culture and nature are filtered.

In this direction, his work leaves traces of a landscape permeable to openly political questions of a collective nature that transcend personal domains. Hauntopolis, his current project that will see the light of day in 2020, recovers the utopian tradition in a personal interpretation of how to address the disappointment of a cultural present that folds in on itself.

With a degree in Fine Arts from the Complutense University of Madrid, with a final course at the Camberwell College of Arts in London, his work has been exhibited individually and collectively in various institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art Gas Natural Fenosa in A Coruña, La Casa Encendida and the Royal Academy of Fine Arts of San Fernando in Madrid, Instituto Cervantes in Chicago, Freires Museum in Berlin, and contemporary art fairs such as Pinta London, FNB Joburg Art Fair South Africa, Arte Santander or Just Madrid.

His work is present in both private and institutional collections, including those of the Mac (Museo de arte contemporáneo de A Coruña), Obra Social Caja Madrid or the Universidad Nacional a distancia.