Exhibition 'Ofertorio' by Greta Alfaro

• Opening: Thursday, June 4, 2026, at 7:00 PM, with a guided tour of the exhibition.

There are spaces whose history remains embedded in their architecture even when their original function has vanished. Nave 0 at Matadero Madrid is one of them. Its scale, its structure, and the way it organizes movement retain something of that operational character for which it was originally conceived. Greta Alfaro draws from this condition of the space to reflect on how we currently relate to the body, transformation, and what we choose to show or keep out of sight.

Ofertorio takes its title from an ancient gesture: to offer. To place something before others. To expose it to the light and turn it, if only for an instant, into something shared. The installation transforms Nave 0 into a journey crossed by references to ritual, anatomy, and body representation, articulating a space where images and objects function as devices for observation and mediation.

At the threshold of the exhibition, an 18th-century anatomical torso—historically used for the study of anatomy—appears. Its presence introduces that visual tradition where science, representation, and artifice still coexisted in the same symbolic space. Through video, installation, and sculpture, Greta Alfaro constructs a contained atmosphere in which the spectator moves among suspended images, fragmented bodies, and contemporary forms of visibility.

The exhibition is part of the Abierto x Obras program, which invites contemporary artists to develop projects conceived specifically for the architecture of Nave 0, and marks Greta Alfaro’s first institutional solo exhibition in Madrid.