This is an excellent example of the mature work of this artist, showing his basic formal features: figurativism, reflections, fragmentation and above all the mutual isolation of the postmodern world.

Pacheco’s career as a painter began in a figurative style akin to . It was during his time in Paris that he evolved towards something closer to , interpreted from a narrative perspective and with a visual wit reminiscent of the British artist David Hockney (1937). However, the influence of , with its narrative style and its dark vision of society, was still perceptible in his work, which gradually became full of light and colour.

He is a painter of urban life in whose work the characters are always presented as isolated, not communicating. Fragmentary representation helps him to emphasise a typical postmodernist idea: that of constant transience —leading him to depict the “non-places” described by Marc Augé— in which there is no time for conversation or for any kind of relationship. Reflections in mirrors and windows underline the artificial nature of the space and divest it of humanity, creating a visual play of ambiguities in which we do not know which is the character and which the reflection. As in Alice through the Looking Glass, the image captured in the mirror is perhaps the very essence of man stripped of his humanity.