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Tori Pounds

Tori Pounds

Relics: When memories live in things

Dolores 54 presents Relics: When memories live in things a solo show by Tori Pounds.

The show includes several different series of work produced in Mexico City after the pandemic. The works manifest the surreal nature of memory and together displayed across the historic Mexico City house, with low windows, textured walls and well known architectural features, they take us through a journey of time and movement.

Taking influence from pop culture, objects pulled from the Pounds’ memories of childhood are shown through painting and digital images. The ‘relics’ and mundane moments don’t exist in time but instead in a new reality, created for them in memory of the artists mother. As a result they become nostalgic and sentimental. Pounds’ paintings satirise death and focus on the loss of the figure, specifically the maternal role. An exaggerated absence and the memory of this maternal figure is cohesive throughout her work, showing up in the form of places, materials, gestures and objects. There is a suggestion of some surreal existence and further questions about her own reality, in an effort to retrieve what is lost.

— Dolores 54

“I was surrounded by an artificiality that I was never in control of, that seeped into my skin without my consent. It was on the outside, a perfect nuclear family prototype that I indulged in, but underneath there were lies of broken arms, wigs and hospital vacations. My fascination with the absurd began here and I continued to want to show people the inverted version of their own reality.” - Tori Pounds