Talwar Gallery is delighted to announce the exhibition of Allan deSouza’s new series of photoworks, The Lost Pictures. In the past, though foreboding cityscapes constructed of bodily and domestic debris or framing diaspora via eerily desolate ports, Allan deSouza has employed architecture as a vessel for systems of power. He has consistently destabilized and chipped away at fixed narrative structures and their role in the fabrication of identity.  The Lost Pictures is by far deSouza’s most personal body of work to date. Following his mother’s death in 2003, deSouza made prints of family slides of his own childhood that he exposed to the intimate wear and tear of daily life by placing them around his home in Los Angeles, including on the kitchen counter, bathroom floor, next to the sink, and on a shower wall. In these new works, detritus simultaneously adheres to and erases the image. As physical ephemera wash over and stain the prints, layers of the original information are drained from the surface. Alternately, the artist has painstakingly marked over his mother’s portraits; each mark sculpting his tribute while evoking her remembrance.