DULCE MARIA RIVAS GODOY

Contemporary Artist

Space, movement, perception and the traces of invisible forces.

What happens when an artist strips away the noise of permanent space and surrenders to the geography of water? Following a radical shift in lifestyle, moving aboard a boat with only a closet of essentials and portable studio tools, this project explores the invisible relationship between spatial environment and human behavior.

LIQUID INTERVALS

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IMPERMANENT TRACES

Liquid Intervals and Impermanent Traces is a two 5min videos and an installation project that examines water as a perceptual, reflective and acoustic field, exploring the fluidity of memory and the ephemeral nature of moments, challenging the traditional urge to capture and archive the instant.

PROJECT

A SENSITIVE SURFACE

The Bow, 2026/watercolor pencils on paper/20×25.5cm

Living on the water reframes the concept of the mark. Small format works made while underway, suggest a profound engagement with the invisible physics of the ocean. Anchored, moving, fixed, unstable, this works explore a more intimate record: the “writing” of the anchor.

PROJECT

THE INVISIBLE ENVELOPE

Songs of Motion, 2026
acrylic on canvas/20×25.5cm

Floating between river and sky, the boat becomes an observatory for the invisible, a station tuned to the quiet weight of barometric pressure, the shimmer of rising heat, and the heavy breath of humidity. On raw linen and paper, heat haze crystallizes into luminous gradients, wind drafts write spontaneous vectors, and ambient moisture fixes earth pigments into soft, celestial halos. These eight small-format works record the delicate, fleeting dialogue between thermal radiation, water vapor, and air, offering a physical cartography of the air that surrounds us.

EXPLORE PROJECT

MINDSCAPES

Abstract painting featuring a stylized black scooter with gray and blue accents, set against a multicolored background with shades of orange, green, beige, and blue.

A cartography of mental and emotional terrains. Landscapes of thought shaped not by geography, but by perception, memory, and emotion.

COLLECTION

FROM THE INTERIOR

Artistic depiction of a glass-enclosed room with plants and butterflies, blending realistic and abstract styles and featuring the exterior seen from the inside longing of freedom.

Prescence through absence, vision filtered through containment, interiority and isolation. A meditation on the act of seeing from within.

COLLECTION
Empty bullfight arena, artistically intervened in occasion of the city foundation anniversary.
Explore the Tauromaquia Collection
A special commission of a ballet dancer. Two figures depicting the same dancer, in a white and a black tutu and pointe shoes, surrounded by abstract and evocative backgrounds.
Commisions