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Greta Alfaro

In Ictu Oculi

Art vidéo | dv | couleur | 10:35 | Espagne | 2009

There is a table in the middle of the countryside, but the guests are absent. There is a feast of food and wine waiting in the cold weather and the dry landscape. The vultures are to come and eat our food and destroy our setting: the still life, the banquet, the space of enjoyment and civilization. The vultures, the beasts linked to death and dirt, to violence and fear, arrive by surprise, and like in a fable, represent for us some of our own qualities.

Greta Alfaro (Spain, 1977) is currently studying an MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art, London. In recent years she has been the recipient of several grants and scholarships among which are Matadero-City Council of Madrid, Casa de Velázquez, Fundación BilbaoArte, the Government of Mexico or the Genesis Foundation. She is taking part in the exhibition Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2010 at the ICA, London, and her recent solo shows include In Ictu Oculi, in Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid and Carpe Diem, Lisbon, and Elogio de la Bestia, in Centro de Arte Contemporáneo Huarte, Spain.