
The Mattress Factory presents Marvin Touré the blood is the water.
March 9, 2024 – March 30, 2025
The Mattress Factory | Pittsburgh
For Marvin Touré (he/him), familial stories and experiences often inform what he makes in the studio. Touré crafts memory through abstraction: primarily mark making, anthropomorphic objects, and installations. The works visually impart the nonlinear, fragmented ways in which recounting family history is passed down through oral traditions. Aesthetic characteristics in the artist’s work include opacity, a fluidity between abstraction and figuration, stylistic references to design, and a southern gothic sensibility. Furthermore, with a background in architecture, Touré often considers the body’s relationship to space in his work.