Santiago Tamayo Soler
Neón
2022 Instagram Residency
From June 15 to August 15, 2022
@dazibaomtl
Dazibao welcomes Santiago Tamayo Soler for its 2022 Instagram residency, for which the artist will take over our account from June 15 to August 15 with his project entitled Neón.
Neón is a cartographic exploration of a Colombian highway reimagined through Google Maps. By taking samples of 30 landscapes and buildings documented on Google Street Views, Neón travels all the way from the southernmost to the northernmost points of Colombia. The selected images of buildings and landscapes, mostly composed of nightlife venues and transitory spaces, are transformed into nocturnal, haunting, and foggy vignettes, filled with neon lights.
Santiago Tamayo Soler (b. Bogotá, Colombia 1990) is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in video and performance. Interested in fiction/nonfiction, narrative devices, and live action, Tamayo Soler's work overlays digital footage and modified virtual realities to create pixelated universes home to Latin American, immigrant, queer stories of a radical futuristic fantasy.
Digital publication
Santiago Tamayo Soler
Neón
This digital publication documents Dazibao's 2022 Instagram residency. From June 15 to August 15, artist Santiago Tamayo Soler took over our account to develop his project Neón.
Learn more about Tamayo Soler's project in the interview with Marie Saadeh.
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Dazibao thanks the artist for his generous collaboration as well as its members for their support.
Dazibao receives financial support from the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts de Montréal, the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications and the Ville de Montréal.
Dazibao acknowledges that we are located on unceded territory of the Kanien'kehá: ka Nation and that Tiohtiá: ke / Montreal is historically known as a gathering place for many First Nations, and today, is home to a diverse population of Indigenous as well as other peoples.