RAÍCES AFUERA. PERFORMANCE CYCLE. ART MADRID'25

Art Madrid celebrates twenty years of contemporary art from March 5 to 9, 2025, at the Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles. During Art Week, it becomes an exhibition platform for national and international galleries and artists. In this edition, with the aim of providing a space for artists working in the realm of performance art, the fair presents Raíces Afuera, a performance cycle that explores notions of belonging and the need for rootedness in a contemporary world marked by fragmentation, displacement, and disconnection. Positioned within the fair as a critical and reflective space, the project challenges the individual’s relationship with their environment, community, and sense of identity.

PERFORMANCE: VOY RASPANDO LA HOJA Y LA VOZ. BY VALENTINA ALVARADO MATOS.

March 7 | 19:00h. Galería de Cristal of the Palacio de Cibeles.

voy raspando la hoja y la voz is a piece that merges image, text, and sound to create a sensory and conceptual journey through the memory of the landscape. Here, the voice becomes a fragmented narrative, a thread weaving together personal memories while reflecting on how landscapes shift, transform, and reconfigure over time and space. The journey, far from being linear, unfolds as a passage between the tangible and the symbolic, blurring the boundaries between the physical place and the language that describes it. The work also explores how certain territories are represented, described, or distorted from different perspectives, questioning dominant narratives. The space being explored is not just a territory, a garden, a park, or a forest—it is also a linguistic construction, a space reimagined through language. The piece invites us to reconsider the borders between the physical and the symbolic, between the real and the narrated.

Propiedades de una esfera paralela. Doble proyección 16mm. 2020. Valentina Alvarado Matos.

ABOUT VALENTINA ALVARADO MATOS

Valentina Alvarado Matos (Maracaibo, Venezuela, 1986) is an artist who explores the moving image with a critical eye towards diaspora, landscape and gesture. Her work has been exhibited in important spaces such as Artium, LIAF Biennial, IFF Rotterdam, Punto de Vista, Ambulante, Loop, Cinemateca Madrid, among others. She has been a resident at Hangar, La Escocesa, Cultura. Resident, LIFT Toronto and Matadero.

In 2024 she presents his work in Barcelona with Carlos Vasquez Mendez in the other here at La Capella and full face at La Virreina Centro de la Imagen. In addition to her artistic practice, she has taught at institutions such as Massana, Eina, Universitat de Barcelona, La Universidad del Zulia, LAV, CC Albareda, EICTV in Cuba, among others. Her films are included in the catalogues of distributors such as Light Cone, XCèntric and Hamaca, and her work has been included in the book Remains-Tomorrow Themes in Contemporary Latin American Abstraction by Cecilia Fajardo-Hill.

PERFORMANCES:

March, 5 | 19:00h. Josefina Bardi. Ensayos de desplazamientos

March, 6 | 19:00h. Eléonore Ozanne. Las fornteras siempre tienen dos lados

March, 7 | 19:00h. Valentina Alvarado Matos. voy raspando la hoja y la voz

March, 8| 19:00h. Ra Asensi. Ese entorno endurece mi piel

March, 9 | 17:00h. Agustina Palazzo. El peso de la ciudad lo llevo conmigo