Guanajuato, Gto., February 15, 2017.- "Sombras del tiempo" is the name of the expo of the artist Gabriela López Portillo which was inaugurated in the Polyvalent and Hermenegildo Bustos Galleries of the University of Guanajuato and will remain in those places until March 16th.

This exhibit is composed of installations and sculptures, which are created from a work process that Gabriela began since 1990, hence, the retrospective of her work.

"Sombras del tiempo" is composed by a series of sculptures that were made with industrialized beams intervened with an axe and gouge until becoming lodges, same that were incrusted with black marble and engraved led. It is worth to mention, that this work is called "Fases de la noche", was the winner of the National Prize of Young Art of Aguascalientes.

One of the aspects that intrigued the artist was the process of hair growth, since sometimes this represents our pass-through existence. Reason why, Gabriela has made several works with her hair.

On the matter, the artist mentioned "I started working with my hair at the same time I made an introspection on which was the reason of my existence, and then I thought in my childhood, where my hair was very important. So, I made a dress kneaded with hair, every hair is a string and I knead it one by one". At the expo is shown a video with the elaboration process of such dress.

Another of the works done is a 6m high ladder made with kneaded hair and cotton thread. Equally, you can observe an arch of hair from different people, reason why, it creates a color figure, since there is red, blonde and brown hair, etc.

A sculpture that stands out is the one made by stone felling with hair, "the stone is hollow inside and from the windows come out hair that were glued one by one until creating a braid."

In addition of these works, the spectator can find several sculptures that define different stages where the artist has lived and other which represent social situations lived every day.

It is important to mention that Gabriela López Portillo studied the degree in Visual Arts at the National School of Plastic Arts (ENAP) of UNAM, (1987-1990), the master and doctorate degree at the Department of Sculpture of the Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain, 1997-2001. Since 2002 until today, she is a researcher-professor at the Art Institute of the Universidad Autónoma del Estado de Hidalgo.

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