Elena del Rivero. Cinco cartas retenidas, una sexta inacabada, una séptima enviada, más una octava recibida

The artist says she uses metaphors "to say what she cannot say and to hide what she cannot express." In this way, and as pointed out by Professor Assumpta Bassas, "her letters recreate the spaces of personal and symbolic relationships which we immediately identify as part of our experience." The system consists of several pieces in which the tissue -like words- overflows from the space of writing (Carta enviada. Yes, yes, yes, 1997). Carta inacabada (1997-1998) consists of one thousand two hundred drawings of the same size displayed in an orderly way on one of the walls of the room. In these we see that between the lines pearls have been sewn and she adds literal excerpts from correspondence with Madame de Sevigné (1629-1696) and her daughter. Thus, Elena del Rivero displays and accepts the identity between sewing and writing (and thus also language), "where an enigmatic, warm and natural approach between painting, knitting and writing occurs, through the merger of gestures and signs", as noted by Bassa. The exhibition includes a sound piece: Cuarteto de cuerda (1998), consisting of a recording of a threaded needle going through the papers of Carta inacabada (1997) appearing as a metaphor for a litany of which the beads of a rosary are strung.