The starting point is Enriquez's literary work, a territory in which urban violence, gothic terror, and the death drive coexist. From these elements, the participating artists visually reinterpret his stories, translating the horror and beauty of his prose into images that oscillate between the explicit and the suggestive. It is a dialogue between word and image that manages to capture the essence of his writing: the visceral, the spectral, and the profoundly human.

One of the most striking aspects of the exhibition is its stylistic diversity. There are hyperrealist illustrations that freeze key moments of his stories with shocking rawness, but there are also expressionist pieces that deform faces and bodies beyond recognition. In this sense, the exhibition avoids falling into a repetition of obvious images and offers a broad view of how different creators perceive terror in Enriquez's work. The predominant chromatic palette reinforces this disturbing tone: deep blacks, saturated reds, and shades of gray that evoke decay, decadence, and mystery.

However, what is most accomplished about “How not to be dead on this day” is not only its visual power but its ability to build an atmosphere that feels genuinely rooted in Enriquez's literature. The arrangement of the works in the space, the dim lighting, and the ambient sound contribute to the sensation of walking through a liminal space, a border between the real and the fantastic.

More than an exhibition of fan art, this show stands as an exercise of appropriation and reinterpretation in which Mariana Enriquez's literature becomes raw material for new visual narratives. A journey through these 70 pieces is, ultimately, an invitation to look at horror from a different perspective, to inhabit it and redefine it through art.