… The metamorphosis of the characters in "Alice in Wonderland" is always contingent. But the figures that Mapi Rivera draws, the landscape of her photographs, show new registers between the real, the symbolic and the imaginary that other experiences of relationship between the self and the other offer. Transforming into a tree, a flower, a solar star, being nature without semiotic hieroglyphs, is for the artist an emotional potential capable of deconstructing the old myths with the simplest questions. Like the pieces of paper with written notes that Alice finds on her itinerary, the artist writes little poems on the wall that lead us through the luminous inner zone of feelings, of love.

The body traced on the paper, the clothes that she sews to dress the figures that she later photographs, have the certainty of fulfilling their natural cycle: the destiny of germinated seed, which evokes Lavinia's experience in "The inhabited woman" by the author Gioconda Bell.

Germinating anatomies, transparent figures crossed by red arteries, hands that are branches, faces hidden by the solar veil ... portraits of an identity that is renewed accompanied by cosmic time, the cronos of what is alive. Thus, identity is reintegrated into the environment of life, detaching itself from the environment of circumstances.

Fragmento del texto escrito con motivo de la exposición colectiva “Alícia no conoce su rostro”, comisariada por Pilar Bonet.