dialogues & solos
LILIANA PORTER
ANA TISCORNIA
Black Shoes, Liliana Porter & Ana Tiscornia, 2005. Archival digital photographs. 27" x 38"
Point of Contact Gallery
October 13 - December 15, 2006
Opening Reception with the artists:
Oct. 13, 2006
Since Liliana Porter last presented her prints and paintings at Syracuse University (Crossing Boundaries, 1990), this world-renowned Argentinean artist has continued to explore and grow into new dimensions in photography and installation art. Her figurines and toys, her characters, are social, down to earth human creations, made in society's image and likeness…
Born in Uruguay, Ana Tiscornia was a witness-participant of Latin America's recent painful history. Her world is made out of digitalized photography intermingled with maps, fragmented objects, rolled pieces of paper, leftovers… what we recall are broken sequences, broken at some critical point in our imagery, in our memory.
About the nature of this exhibit, the artists comment: “In order to say where our work intercepts, first we should establish that both artworks are different. While one is more philosophical, related to recurrent questions (Liliana), the other is more political and relates to current events (Ana). While one is dramatic, the other confronts human tragedy with humor. We do not pretend to erase that diversity but to use it as material for the new constructions. What we want is for the fusion of both languages to give birth to a narrative that could be for all intents and purposes fictional and mysterious, where the visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation and uncovers unexpected conflicts.”
THE POINT OF CONTACT GALLERY
914 East Genesee St.
Syracuse, NY 13210
Tel: 315.443.2169 or 315.443.5497
Gallery Open: Monday through Friday
12 - 2 pm / 3 - 5 pm, or by appointment.
ARTISTS' BIOS:
LILIANA PORTER
ANA TISCORNIA
INTERSECTIONS, the art of Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia
by Pedro Cuperman
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