Georgina Reskala (b. 1967, Mexico City) is a Mexican-Lebanese artist living and working in Santa Monica, California. Working across photography, textiles, and sculpture. Her practice is rooted in the intersection of memory, material, and time. Born and raised in Mexico City, Reskala moved to San Francisco to attend the California College of Arts and Crafts, where she received her BFA in Photography, studying under Larry Sultan and training extensively with Chris Johnson in traditional fine printing. She later earned her MFA in 2015 at California College of the Arts. In her work, Reskala creates abstracted landscapes that explore the uncertainty of memory by combining mechanical and manual photographic techniques. In her "Fragments" series, she engages in a repetitive process of photographing and rephotographing, folding and creasing the print between each darkroom exposure — rendering conventional seascapes and landscapes nearly unrecognizable through crushed dimensionality and unsettling disintegration. The result is work that embodies the emotional experience of dissolving memories rather than simply describing its subject. Reskala's work is held in the public collections of the Portland Art Museum, the Frye Art Museum, the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, the Cassilhaus Collection, and the Museo Comunitario de Arte in Zacatecas, Mexico.
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