Shrouded in drunken sensual exoticism, these women develop a multiple nature that allows them to change sides and to assimilate changing situations. Paz’ devil-may-care figures exude life, and yet they also play a psychological game of hide-and-seek, always standing at the thin line between illusion and abyss. Beneath their costumes, they give an impression of a subtle introspection. It is unclear whether they are in agreement with their own metamorphoses, playing tricks on us at a vanity’s fair, or if they are unwillingly forced into alterity.

It is obvious that Alicia Paz herewith puts her own role as an artist into play. The illustrative decors draw our attention and make it possible to experience the painter’s intellectual pleasure, accompanying the creation of her works, while we contemplate her pictures. This is effective thanks to a seductive light-heartedness which speaks about art’s creative process, revealing and representing it in the same moment. Thus, these artworks refer in an allegorical sense to the social processes of our own times.