Santiago Espeche
Bio
Santiago Espeche is an Argentine visual artist who explores the artistic potential of stains. His digital work is primarily an intervention of scientific processing on satellite images of the Earth, then printed on photographic media. He has exhibited his work individually and collectively at the Palazzo Firenze in Rome, Art Stage Singapore, National Museum of Art and History in Leon, Mexico, Fotofever Paris, Fotofever Brussels, Art Hamptons and Artemisa Gallery in New York, National Museum of Bahrain, National Museum of Riyadh, Recoleta Cultural Center, Borges Cultural Center among others.
Statement
My first memory of vision, the first time I saw, is steeped in Roman frescoes and an innate concern for figures in damp stains, in the folds of clothing, or in the shapes of continents on paper maps. Whether with a lost gaze or the lens of childhood pareidolia. I spent hours deciphering the characters in the accidents of the plinths of my childhood in Rome. To that concern the wonderful daily stimulus of growing up in a giant museum city. A game of poetic interaction with the figures wherever I fixed my gaze. This followed me to all destinations. It took me years to apply it in an artistic way.
As a subtle part of the crossing between art and science, it was nice to find a new but familiar language. The plumes of smoke and ashes from fires and volcanoes, the water stains from floods, or the term Next neighbor to define the character that a pixel will have. Nothing more poetic than the neighbor. In short, scientific language uses poetic resources to define and discern in its interpretations. All very familiar.
