Santiago Vélez

Santiago Vélez (1972, Medellín, COL) makes photos, videos, installations and objects. Santiago's work has been shown at various Biennials, in museums in Colombia and is part of public and private collections. He holds a PhD of artistic investigation at the University of Barcelona. He was one of the researchers participating in the sixth and eighth Colombian Scientific Expeditions to Antarctica as part of the Colombian Antarctic Art Project founded by artist Natalia López La Reina and managed by the Viajelogía Foundation. The expeditions to Antarctica are carried out thanks to the Colombian Antarctic Program coordinated by the Colombian Ocean Commission.
Horizons, refugees, water as a border are the main themes that appear in his work.