...Neruda asked, “Air in the air? And the man, where is he?” Ileana answers, “The man is in the city, he is in the house; he is protected by the doors”. And we see that, except for a few exceptions, in all of her painting there is the human creature.
— Words pronounced during the exhibition Puertas [Doors] at La Acacia art gallery by the writer and poet Mr. César López, awarded the National Prize of Literature, in 2003.
