Javier Talavera, nacido en 1988 en Madrid, tiene un máster en fotografía contemporánea y es ingeniero de telecomunicaciones, una combinación que ha definido su práctica y metodología artística. Centrado en la relación entre nuestro cuerpo y su representación, su obra revisita el género del retrato desde planteamientos múltiples y no fijos de lo que somos, trabajando en torno a principios de representación cercanos a lo anónimo. Sus proyectos dialogan con la fragilidad y la impermanencia, tanto de la vida como de la materialidad de las imágenes, generando tensiones entre fuerzas aparentemente opuestas: lo figurativo y lo abstracto, lo vivo y lo muerto.
Javier Talavera, born in Madrid in 1988, has a master's degree in contemporary photography and is a telecommunications engineer, a combination that has defined his artistic practice and methodology. Focusing on the relationship between our bodies and their representation, his work revisits the genre of portraiture from multiple and unfixed approaches to who we are, working around principles of representation close to anonymity. His projects engage with the fragility and impermanence of both life and the materiality of images, generating tensions between apparently opposing forces: the figurative and the abstract, the living and the dead.
2025 Solo exhibition Real sociedad fotográfica Madrid (Spain)
2025 Solo exhibition Experimental Photo Festival Barcelona (Spain)
2025 Solo exhibition José Guerrero Art Center Granada (Spain)
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2024 Solo exhibition Vintage photo festival (Poland)
2024 Winner Emergentes II AFTM (Spain)
2024 Group exhibition REVELA’T festival (Spain)
2024 Group exhibition XXV jornadas fotograficas Aracena (Spain)
2023 Portfolio selected for ART Photo BCN (Spain)
2023 Finalist Dummy Award Fiebre Photobook (Spain)
2023 Artist in residence REVELA’T (Spain)
2023 Solo exhibition Mirades festival (Spain)
2023 Anniversary exhibition Galeria Complices (Spain)
2023 “We sculpt” exhibition Galeria Complices (Spain)
2022 Nominated Paris Photo Carte Blanche (France)
2022 Group exhibition ‘Freedom refined’ Rotterdam photo (Netherlands)
2022 Group exhibition CICA (South Korea)
2022 Winner III Casa Scholarship (Spain)
2022 Group exhibition Art&Techno (Spain)
2022 Selected artist Art Battalion (Spain)
2022 SomosCómplices group exhibition (Spain)
2022 Solo exhibition CasaFilete (Spain)
2021 Group exhibition “Remain” Espacio Cómplices (Spain)
2020 Artist in residence “the intimate and the public” with Ernesto Artillo (Spain)
2018 Group exhibition “Cuadernos Vallekanos” (Spain)
2017 Group exhibition “Vortice” (Spain)
PUBLICATIONS
2024 “No todos los calvos con barba son Javier Talavera” by “La Mosca Ediciones”.
2023 “Me lo dijo la montaña” 2nd edition published by “La Mosca Ediciones”.
2022 “Me lo dijo la montaña” 1st edition published by “Gimmefive.wtf” - 4 reprints
2022 “Obra obra”, published by “La Mosca Ediciones”