Bailad

Site-specific exhibition by Carlos Aires at Nave 0 of Matadero Madrid: an installation that transforms a former charred room into a shored-up dance floor, between euphoria and unease.

Carlos Aires's proposal is presented as a site-specific exhibition within the Abierto x Obras programme and can be seen at Nave 0, the exhibition space of Matadero Madrid. Visitors are invited to enter a shored-up dance floor, a sculptural ensemble through which states such as euphoria and unease pass.

The work occupies a former refrigeration room of the municipal slaughterhouse, a space charred after a fire. The visible wounds of the space and the memory of the violence it suffered are the starting point of the project. Inside, a hundred supports and some twenty screens form a metal forest populated by mysterious figures.

The route is accompanied by a disquieting soundscape, and the proposal brings together ruin, darkness and euphoria in a sensory piece. It is Carlos Aires's first solo show in a public institution in Madrid.