OFRENDA
Kathryn Garcia
Sa Penya, Ibiza
22 June – 6 July 2026
Public Opening: Monday 22 June | 18:00–21:00
OFRENDA is an exhibition by Ibiza-based artist Kathryn Garcia (b. Los Angeles), curated by Sarvia Jasso.
Through film, sculpture, works on paper and installation, Garcia transforms a historic space in Sa Penya into a site of remembrance, ritual, and devotion. What follows is the artist's own invocation of the work and the place from which it emerges:
This exhibition begins underground.
Beneath an apartment built into the rock of Sa Penya, Phoenician cisterns hold the resonance of what once existed before — carved by hands that knew water to be sacred. Beings that moved through this island with a cosmology in which the Goddess was not metaphor but the governing principle of their lives. The cisterns are still there, empty. You can descend into them. The island has not forgotten what it holds. Neither have I. This is the land of my ancestors.
Visitors are invited to descend into the cistern below — a descent not unlike the Goddess who traveled to the underworld to reclaim her power. Installed within the cistern is a pyramid — the shape of fire and transformation. Here, one can sit, meditate, take a moment to commune with the ancestors whose traces resonate in the stone.
The room above is circular. Cave walls. A threshold space, within the earth — caves were the first temples. Tanit's cave in the north of the island was ceremonial space for the Phoenician; hundreds of idols to her were found there during excavation. Into a cavity in the wall, She Changes Everything “She Touches and Everything She Touches Changes” (2023) will be projected as an altar: my body with my sculptures at sacred sites across Ibiza and Menorca, in devotion to Tanit — the Goddess of this island, this sea, this stone. The video is not documentation. It is devotion — an offering to Tanit, the guardian of this land. To witness it is to commune with Her. The work itself is the ceremony; the room becomes a temple for as long as you stand in it.
Sa Penya is a place where the old world and its erasures are still legible in the stone. The disrepair, the drift, embodied in the unnamed grief of a place whose ancestors have not been honored, whose Goddess has been forgotten by the people now living above her cisterns. The ancestors are angry. What they are asking for is offering. Remembrance. Ceremony — not as an aesthetic gesture but as genuine offering — is the form this work must take. The exhibition will close with a continuation of this offering, details to follow.
Tanit was the supreme deity of Carthage, the Goddess of the moon, fertility, and death — a figure of complete cycle. Her presence in Ibiza is not a historical footnote. She is in the rock, the stones, the caves, the sea, the wind, She is in the synchronicities and in the island's pulse. Tanit is everywhere. Together, we are making an offering.
The cisterns below. The altar above. Ancestors everywhere.
This is Tanit's land. This work is made in Her name.
A portion of exhibition sales proceeds will be donated by the artist to the construction of a Traditional Birth House in Aldeia Espelho da Vida (Village of the Mirror of Life), led by Batani, shaman and midwife of the Huni Kuĩ people, Brazilian Amazon.
ADDRESS
Carrer del Retir 39, Planta Baja, 07800 Ibiza (Next to Casa Broner)
CAN Art Week Hours
Tuesday–Thursday | 12:00–16:00
Friday 26 June | 21:00–23:00
Saturday 27 June | 16:00–20:00
Additional viewings by appointment through 6 July.
CONTACT
Sarvia Jasso: sarvia@sarviajasso.com
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Kathryn Garcia(b. Los Angeles, CA) is an interdisciplinary artist named a Future Great by ArtReview in 2025. Working across large-scale drawing, sculpture, performance, film, and installation, her practice is rooted in pre-patriarchal feminine cosmology and the scholarship of Marija Gimbutas and Miriam Robbins Dexter, tracing Goddess iconographies and ritual architectures predating their patriarchal erasure.
Drawing on her Gravettian, Iberian, Sardinian, and Mexican ancestral lineages, Garcia situates the body, the earth, and the feminine as sites of cosmological authority. Her stainless steel pyramid sculptures function as vessels for meditation and collective resonance, while her large-scale geometric drawings trace ancient matrifocal symbol systems through the female form.
Her work has been exhibited internationally, including TEMPLO at Hauser & Wirth (Los Angeles); the Orange County Museum of Art; LAXART; PS1-MoMA (New York); Ballroom Marfa; Pace Gallery; The Bunker Artspace; Edel Assanti and Southard Reid (London); and the DESTE Foundation (Greece), among others. Early in her career, she collaborated internationally with Emi Fontana and Rirkrit Tiravanija on landmark projects including Women in the City (2008) and Asile Flottant (2010).
ABOUT THE CURATOR
Sarvia Jasso is an independent curator and art advisor with nearly two decades of experience in the international contemporary art world. Formerly a Director at Hauser & Wirth, Regen Projects, and Blum & Poe in Los Angeles, her practice fosters meaningful connections between contemporary art, audiences, and cultural contexts. Jasso’s curatorial projects have been presented at the Berkeley Art Museum, MoMA PS1, and ICA Philadelphia, among others.