The work of Alejandra Roux, an Argentine artist who has lived in Madrid for twenty years, makes clear her ongoing belief in the narrative and emotional potential of painting. Based on the story by the Brothers Grimm, her recent exhibition “Hänsel & Gretel” evoked the sexually charged fear and violence that, as Bruno Bettelheim ascertained long ago, underlie many childhood stories. Phallic and vaginal metaphors abound, and eroticism is one of the unequivocal drives in this work; it is felt in objects not usually associated with the erotic (like the stole around the neck of the lady in La madrastra