The indigenous populations of the Amazon keep the forest standing. And what keeps their spirit alive? Multiplicity, counterforce, dual citizenship, junction of opposites, incandescence, enchantment, symbol: almost mantras that have been pulsating through the processes undergone by Vera Mantero and her accomplices since 2021. Works that create friction between different spheres and place us on the threshold of the unconscious, allowing us to almost enter the world of dreams. Abstract figures and symbols cross side by side with everyday actions, bodies transmute at the intersection with objects and the poetic word. It is in these intersections and counterforces that our capacity for change is rehearsed, the translation of a destructive energy into an energy of openness and divestment. — Vera Mantero