Recorded in May, 2011 by TAL – Televisión América Latina

Denise works as if she were an alchemist, but an alchemist who does not use physical processes of transformation. These are processes of inspiration, mental processes, intuitive processes. This mental, spiritual alchemy seems for me to embody the set of works we have here. They tend to the necessity of a search of meanings, which may be the most critical element of our civilization, which has been reduced to immediate and mechanical behaviors and which loses the power of thinking, of meditating, of questioning itself about the most mysterious things. It is a door, an opening. And this seems for me to be the role of the artist.

In the exhibition there is a suggestion, at first, of the idea of deciphering. This idea is very strong and it appears in the conception of the stones that turn into books (“Quartzografia" series) to exhibit other stones in complex, varied, delicate, stimulating, mysterious situations. Better still, one should avoid explaining in detail and let flow this principle of a mystery contained in a book of stones, which I therefore cannot turn the pages and read, but which invites me for deciphering.

There are other elements that will be present. The transformation of the stone in these marks, in these cylinders (“Tablets da Terra" series) that imprint over clay signs evoking archaic processes of mineralization, fossils, things of the kind, and which are, somehow, artificial fabrications, but which always refer to the idea of the primordial stone.