Towers and No Return: Towers in foreground with No Return against back wall

Mexico City artist Gabriela López Portillo created a two-part project for inSITE94 installed at the Centro Cultural Tijuana. Entitled "Towers/Torres" and "No Return/No regreso," the two pieces poetically resonated with each other in terms of material and form. "No Return" was a delicate ladder woven from the artist's own hair and suspended in mid-air. The second piece, "Towers," was made of cut and polished black marble pieces stacked to form tapered towers out of which braids of human hair wound like serpents. The artist stated that she wanted to create a piece that drew from her own being and reference the limitations society places on women. --inSITE94

• 1994

• Portillo, Gabriela López (Mexican installation artist, born 1966)

• InSITE94

This image is a scan of a 35mm color slide from the InSite Archive (MSS 707, Box 310, Folder 01, Item 201)

Centro Cultural Tijuana

marble (rock); human hair

• InSITE94

• Mexican-American border region

• Installations (visual works)
• Sculpture (visual work)

• Feminism
• Ladders
• Towers

• image

Shared Shelf: 16715482

Online finding aid

• inSite Archive

Sculpture and Installations

[Title, Date]. InSite Archive. MSS 707. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

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2020-10-27