Buenos Aires Herald

By Alfredo Cernadas

The exhibition is called Disgusting Beauty. A very apt title indeed. And when one sees the works, one can hardly imagine that their creator is a slim, petite, unassuming young woman with a a gaze as sweet as her face. Yet there is a slight impish glint somewhere in the bottom of Lorena Guzman's eyes. Her output is shocking, scary and/or macabre, gory. Yet in each of them she adds details of such beauty, delicacy and exquisite workman ship that they seem to belong to fairy world far removed by the sadistic items they adorn. Parts of corpses and what would seem left overs from a torture chamber. The beauty of the victims' expressive faces and figures makes the contrast ever so much stronger and terrible. Yet there are a couple of resin sculptures of Ophelia (the artist's self portrait) floating in the river,among drifting leaves, shortly before she drowns, that are positively lovely. A remarkable, lyrical contrast with the surrounding, fascinating horror. A very intriguing show by this talent sculptor.