"La colección", Langage Plus artist run centre, Alma, Québec (Canada) 2014

With a unique composition and being repurposed, the objects that come from all over the province of Quebec are also infused with a metaphoric quality. For Torres, the objects, which are ordinary everyday items, are reservoirs of the collective memory. By transporting a part of his personal collection on his travels between the Iles de la Madelaine and the south shore of the St. Lawrence River, the artist has transformed his incongruous group of items into mobile pieces of history.

Grouped into six sculptoric interventions throughout the exhibit space, the furniture, tools, pieces of equipment and other construction items become the center of the exhibit, the narrative in the story the sculptor is telling. An impossible assembly of chairs and dilapidated tools precariously piled up. A door hangs over a mirror on the floor - between the two, a light bulb. In another area, a rocking chair, fisherman’s buoys suspended in a quasi-decorative bouquet.