Virginia Rose Torrence | Not What I Remember

Not What I Remember explores the desire to concrete the past in temporal materials such as foam, wet clay, paint, paper, and found objects.

Torrence uses familiar objects to function as themselves, but also as personal symbols of identity, loss, desire, and other internal experiences. By embracing ambiguities between representation and symbolism, tangible and abstract, Torrence unfolds a material semiotics in which concrete objects constitute a new poetic language. Each work aestheticizes a memory image, in its irresolute aloofness.

Cover Image: Untitled (Snake), Virginia Rose Torrence, Gypsum Cement