PATRICK POUND

Patrick Pound collects and exhibits images and objects as if on a dare. He creates works using found photographs and items from his personal archives, amassed over years of collecting.

As he puts it: “To collect is to gather your thoughts through things.”

Parade brings together several distinct collections of found photographs and everyday objects. Pound’s work is driven by the idea that images and objects, when assembled under strict and often amusingly singular constraints, might coalesce in unexpected and evocative ways.

The works in Parade are politically charged by chance, and are both banal and resonant in equal measure.

Central to the exhibition is an installation comprised of a vast set of found model vessels, ranging from plastic bath-toys to a wooden puzzle of an ocean liner, alongside figurines of all kinds—from decorative ceramics to tiny plastic people. These objects ‘walk’ and ‘float’ across the floor in an informal parade. Like a flea-market procession, they seem to rise from their recently redundant roles in the world of things.

These chance encounters between otherwise unrelated subjects accumulate into a quiet index of the everyday: a lifetime of gestures, memories, and material cast-offs. In Parade, the logic of the sequence and Pound’s constraints of collecting give way, and the world, as always, sneaks in.