Ana Tiscornia 

Ana Tiscornia is a long time collaborator in Point of Contact projects and served as Art Editor for Point of Contact gallery and publications between 2006 and 2016. Uruguayan-born, based in New York since 1990, her 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.

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 featured in Point of Contact’s 1995 edition, Writing Across Cultures (Vol. 4, No. 2), this piece is part of the permanent collection.

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One of the signatue pieces in the Point of Contact collection, Black Shoes is a collaborative work by Liliana Porter and Ana Tiscornia merging two distinct artistic languages. Porter brings philosophical exploration of metaphor, while Tiscornia contributes her politically engaged practice rooted in memory and current events. The work features one of Porter's signature figurines intruding upon an alien space created from Tiscornia's digitalized photography, fragmented objects, and rolled pieces of newspaper. The fusion of both languages gives rise to a narrative where visual ambiguity opens new ways of interpretation.