PAC LA / Online Lecture Jackie Castillo: Constructing Rupture (The Distance)
PAC LA / Online Lecture
Jackie Castillo: Constructing Rupture (The Distance)
Thursday, July 23 at 11 AM PT on Zoom
Co-hosted by Hannah Sloan & Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles
Join us for a special online conversation with Los Angeles artist Jackie Castillo, who will offer an inside look at the development of Rupture (The Distance)—an evolving body of work created for a forthcoming public presentation in 2027. Following the lecture, Castillo will participate in a live Q&A with attendees.
Tracing the project from its earliest conceptual questions while situating it within the continuity of her broader practice, Castillo explores how material and photographic processes can embody lived conditions rather than simply depict them. Emerging from the intertwined ideas of distance, anticipation, latency, class, and rupture within the Southern California built environment, the project investigates how photography can extend beyond the image to become sculptural, architectural, and spatial. In doing so, Rupture (The Distance) asks how the photograph might function not only as a tool of representation, but as a means of constructing experience itself.
/ About PAC LA
Since 2020, Photographic Arts Council Los Angeles (PAC LA) has presented virtual conversations with artists, curators, collectors, and scholars from across the photography and lens-based art world. This year's online programming, hosted by Hannah Sloan, explores the theme of Innovation, examining not simply new technologies or materials, but new ways of thinking about what photography can be and how it shapes our understanding of the world. Throughout the series, artists whose practices challenge conventional definitions of the medium will share the ideas, processes, and philosophies behind their work. By foregrounding artists who rethink the possibilities of lens-based practice, PAC LA's 2026 online series highlights innovation as a conceptual and critical force—one that continues to redefine the role of photography in contemporary art and culture.
/ About the Artist
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).
Featured Artwork /
Jackie Castillo, Casting, 2025, electrophotographic prints, brick
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Due to the interactive and physical nature of the walkthrough, space is highly limited to 12 participants per session. RSVP is required to attend.
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5613 San Vicente Blvd
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5613 San Vicente Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90019
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