Daniel Santiago Salguero is a Colombian artist whose work spans various media, including performance art and photography. He earned his B.F.A. in Audio-Visual Media and Photography in 2006 from Politécnico Grancolombiano in Bogotá. He completed an M.A. in Performance Art (Artes Vivas) at Universidad Nacional de Colombia in 2014. Salguero’s art has been exhibited at notable venues such as the Jewish Museum in New York City and the 9th Mercosur Biennale in Brazil.
Daniel has also contributed to innovative projects like “About the Error,” a curatorial research initiative on contemporary Colombian art and literature. This project was showcased in multiple cities and culminated in a meticulously crafted book featuring specially commissioned posters and texts. He engaged in a significant two-year collaboration with a Dutch artist, exploring photography’s role in shaping historical memory. In 2016, he participated in Proximidades/Distancias, Prácticas escénicas contemporáneas en España y Latinoamérica at NYU, where he presented his theater-performance piece, Fuentes-Puentes. His 2018 residency at Flora Ars + Natura Art residency, supported by a grant, led to the development of several projects, including Luciérnagas. This six-month workshop provided a free, publicly accessible program for HIV-positive individuals interested in research and social art practice, reflecting Salguero’s commitment to merging conceptual theory with performance and political issues.
Daniel’s art frequently addresses health rights and LGBTQI+ issues, areas he has openly engaged with since the early stages of his career. Currently based in Bogotá, he has been leading the photography courses at El Bosque University’s Fine Arts program since 2023. As a father of two, Salguero incorporates his experiences as a gay father into his artistic practice, documenting and archiving his journey’s personal and social aspects.
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Spoken Portrait Column
In this series of interviews, Daniel Santiago Salguero goes beyond capturing visual portraits to focus on creating meaningful encounters with other artists. The column delves into how artists narrate themselves, questioning the often-passive role they play in their own stories, where others are the ones who interpret and define them. In a contemporary world filled with tools for self-narration and self-representation, Daniel Santiago Salguero proposes an innovative approach: a horizontal dialogue. This conversation, framed from a gender perspective, not only reveals the voices of the interviewed artists but also offers an intimate and enriching view of their identities and creative processes, connecting the personal with the collective and the social structure.
