Paper is a medium that characterises Elena del Rivero’s work, as shown in this set of drawings. As if pushing the paper’s resistance to the limit, she applies multiple techniques such as cutting, collage, superimposing words or letters and other experimental resources. The distinctive element that most identifies her work is the epistolary format, which she uses obsessively in long series of drawings and letters that explore the limits of personal and, at the same time, universal communication. The idea of accumulation and repetition, and the multiplicity of elements, are also central to her series. With intricate and tangled shapes, the alphabet created by the artist confirms what no alphabet has been able to overcome, the impossibility of communication. Since the series Letters to the Mother began in 1991, clearly evoking Franz Kafka's well-known Letter to his Father (written in 1919 and published posthumously in 1952), del Rivero has written more than 1,200 letters. It is a particularly significant series, in that it consists of a long collection of letters to the figure of the mother, a paradigm of the human bond and the link with the Other. In this vast epistolary set, Sin título. Junio-Julio. El amour Propre. Bellagio (Untitled. June-July. Self-Esteem. Bellagio, 2005) revolves around time. The repetitive marks symbolise the seconds per hour, as well as evoking the hardship of manual work carried out throughout history by women, a thematic axis to which the artist often returns.