... These photos contain a hieratic and a strong symbolic charge that we cannot dissociate to the sacred from the images linked in our visual unconscious.
This feminine splendor that voluntarily settles in fragility, achieving the majestic presence of the Madonnas or the Immaculate of Murillo and Zurbarán, evoked in this weightless air infected with oriental and somewhat innocent iconography. It is about the vindication of feeling as a way of universal knowledge. In a way, the world is built with universal metaphors that haunt us century after century, they vary their intonation, we modify their nuances.

Among them, the sphere. Its symbolism runs from Ancient Greece to the Middle Ages, from Athens to Damascus. Parmenides defends that the sphere (sphaira) constitutes the fundamental cosmic principle. This "circularity" of being is also reproduced in the worldviews of Empedocles and Anaximander and reaches Plato in the Timaeus where the cosmos is conceived as a sphere.

Medieval alchemical language conceives of God as "a sphere whose center is ubiquitous and whose circumference we never see."While in Antiquity the sphere was referred to the divinity, the cosmos and the "soul of the world", its symbolism has been expanding its meaning, thus with the romantics it symbolized the individual soul and finally the "ideal self". All this is still contained in that image that we identify simply as a sphere, and it cannot be ignored.

Each art work in this exhibition needs to be carefully contemplated as if it were a star, to see all its iridescence in detail, a star that is itself a shining point full of its own qualities but the sense of its light acquires its maximum meaning in the context of the constellation, there is no VEIL without MUTE nor is it without BODY or body without SPHERE, thus the sphere closes with a center equidistant from each star, forming that constellation that is the work of Mapi Rivera.