Look Back At It is Erin M. Riley’s first solo presentation with mother’s tankstation. It is part of Condo London 2025; an innovative, collaborative exhibition bringing together 49 galleries across 22 London spaces. The title Look Back At It is as simple as it is confounding. Look back at what, when, how, why? Here these are crucial, life-changing, questions. Riley’s work sits Janus-like on this boundary line between ‘this’ and ‘that’, primordial aura and contemporary skepticism, timeless and timely. She uses collaged photography, digital images, selfies and photo booth imagery, rendered by hand on the arcane machinery of a loom, in coloration and manner that consciously replicates low resolution digital pixelation. Riley is aware of the involuntary reflex of memory, questioning if it is an attempt…
