The most striking element about Alejandra Alvarez’s painting is the fundamental place of nature in the space of the canvas. Embracing, constant, superior, and magnified, it almost fully captures the attention. Sometimes treated with precision, it is more often represented in a moving harmony of flat tints and shades. Between the trees and leaves, is a nude self-portrait of the artist. Nudity is crucial in these portraits, enhancing the body as naked in the middle of the jungle is an ode to the osmosis between man and nature. Nudity is the trueness, transparency, and vulnerability of the soul. The treatment of the body within the scenery shows that for the artist, the main character isn’t the figure nor the jungle, it’s a whole. Everything acts and melts together in unity. 

By portraying her tears as the waterfalls of a mountain and her period as the bleeding of the earth, the artist tries to reconnect her soul with her body through the very essence of everything: Mother Earth. This is a personal quest, but more than anything, a will to find spirituality and greatness in a modern society that no longer prioritizes the living world. The jungle plays a large part in the artist's heart as she grew up near it. Painting is a way of reconnecting with her origins and creating a sensitive, comforting, colorful, and bright world to escape the darkness of her mind. 

In her most recent drawings, the artist shows new technicity in the graphic rendering of certain themes and her experiments in vivid and complementary colors. Symbolism plays a greater part in her creative process as we see the emerging saturated oniric scenes of spiritual beings. The birds and angel, often associated with biblical iconography, are here fully transformed into a sensorial and serene experience of spirituality, highlighting the invisible connections between all things: the earth, the sky, the unknown, the body, and the soul.

Eléonore Scarvelis, art researcher