Untitled Portraits
Portraits II
Although Tisconia lives in New York she continues her engagement with her homeland. Work produced for a history museum there led to a realization of a new way to speak about the disappeared. Identity denied haunts individuals, families and societies.
The elegance of Tiscornia’s works entice the viewer but even careful inspection does not yield a clear portrait. Images in Portraits II are blurred, behind a translucent film. The faces in the wall installation, Untitled with Portraits, must be wholly imagined; Tiscornia mixes images of the backs of traditional portrait frames with small fragments of text. The backs of the frames appear tattered, handled, loved as if touched by successive generations. Together with the text fragments, they speak of memory, loss and our inability to know the disappeared. Though we cannot see their faces, we can remember their plight. Tiscornia hopes that remembering will help guard against future disappeared. |
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