The Dried Peach (detail), 1976

the countryside, and raise a commentary by Eva Giberti, who points out to Distéfano the symbolic link of this plant to endurance and immortality. Thereafter, the artist has used it in various works –Figure with Thistles, Thistle-Riddled (1984), Diagonally (1986), On her knees (1987)– sort of as a metaphoric sign of survival, perhaps of the ideals or the spirit that live in the fallen bodies which usually go along with it. On the other hand, they behave as hints of the bleak landscapes in which they have been abandoned.

Except for The bathroom and The Dried Peach Always Falls Face up, which exhibit a fine and ironic humour, the rest of the set shows the drama of the time without any euphemisms–, the military dictatorship had overthrown the government in March and was enforcing State terrorism, where citizens were seemingly worthless against a power that did not hesitate to torture, kill and disappear its victims. Some drawings are included in the exhibition; two of them announce King and Queen (1978), a work inspired by Egyptian statuary, in which