Ana Tiscornia 

Ana Tiscornia is a Uruguayan-born artist whose work spans photography, collage, installation, and video, often exploring memory, identity, and the social and political landscapes of Latin America. Her practice investigates how images and objects carry histories and narratives, transforming everyday materials into complex visual commentaries. Tiscornia’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in multiple institutional collections, reflecting her engagement with issues of representation, culture, and artistic reconstruction.

33 Reconstructions (1995) is a black-and-white photographic collage that recombines reproduced and Xeroxed images drawn from advertisements and political contexts. By layering and rearranging these fragments, Tiscornia interrogates the circulation of visual culture and the ways meaning is constructed, disrupted, or manipulated. Originally associated with Point of Contact: Writing Across Cultures (Vol. 4, No. 2), this piece is part of the permanent collection of Punto de Contacto / Point of Contact and is housed in the Hawkins storage facility under the Jack Nelson Collection identifier 1995.003.001.

On one hand, the search for metaphor; on the other, memory, annexations, appropriations—in other words, the entire spectrum of what happens in contemporary art. One is more philosophical, tied to recurring questions (Liliana); the other is more political and connected to current events (Ana). 
The fusion of both languages gives rise to a narrative that may be, for all intents and purposes, fictitious and mysterious, where visual ambiguity opens new paths for interpretation. 
 

In Black Shoes, the girl (one of Liliana’s little figures) is a pair of legs that timidly intrudes upon an unfamiliar space (one of Ana’s layouts). One frame shows her walking in a multilayered world, another shows her coming toward us as if exploring her own reflection, another shows her from above… and then she leaves. Where is she going? And why is the rest of her body missing?