PAC LA / Online Lecture
Jackie Castillo:
Constructing Rupture (The Distance)
Thursday, July 23 at 11am PT / 12 pm MT
Co-hosted by Hannah Sloan & Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles on Zoom.
Constructing Rupture (The Distance), Online Lecture with Jackie Castillo hosted by curator and advisor Hannah Sloan
Live on Zoom, Thursday, July 23. 11:00 AM PST
Join us for an inside look at the development of Jackie Castillo's Rupture (The Distance), an evolving body of work created for a forthcoming public presentation in 2027. A Q & A will follow.
Tracing the project from its earliest conceptual questions while situating it within the continuity of his broader practice, Castillo asks what material or photographic process can embody a condition rather than merely depict it. Beginning with the intertwined conditions of distance, anticipation, latency, class, and rupture as they emerge within the Southern California built environment, the work explores how photography might move beyond the image to become sculptural, architectural,and spatial. It also considers how the photograph may expand beyond a means of representation to become a way of constructing experience itself.
/ About
Jackie Castillo (b. Orange, California 1990) is a Los-Angeles based artist whose practice moves between photography, sculpture, and installation to examine how the built environment shapes lived experience, particularly for those whose labor sustains it but whose presence often goes unrecognized. Working with film photographs of suburban and urban landscapes alongside materials drawn from those same sites, Castillo allows fragments of place to reappear in altered forms in her work. These elements are rarely presented as whole, instead, they remain partial, interrupted, and rearranged, reflecting how spaces that appear stable and familiar can produce quiet forms of dislocation, tension, and estrangement. In this way, the work attends to what persists beneath the surface: histories, gestures, and forms of labor that shape the landscape but are not fully seen.
Castillo's work resides in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art permanent collection, she received the 2025 Dedalus Foundation MFA Fellowship in Painting and Sculpture, and the 2025 LA County Department of Arts and Culture Public Art Apprenticeship. Her solo exhibitions include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2025) and As-Is Gallery (2021, 2023).
Event is free and open to the public.
Registration required.