Meera Margaret Singh: What We Hold
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Art Gallery at Evergreen 1205 Pinetree Way, Coquitlam, British Columbia V3B 7Y3
Meera Margaret Singh, “Birds of a Feather,” 2023
digital chromogenic print, 81 x 152.5 cm. (courtesy of the Artist)
The archive of a life is abundant. In the touring exhibition What We Hold, a series of photographic and sculptural still lifes by Meera Margaret Singh trace familial histories and memories through objects—some joyful, others haunted.
Books, shells, vases, trinkets, rocks and plants narrate the time spent and the stories shared among family. These are stories of loss, migration, marriage, rupture, illness, recovery, healing and love. Through her large-scale photographs and sculptures, Singh playfully considers the varied definitions of “inheritance” to ask: What will I choose to carry? To keep? What will I pass on? What will I let go? The artist creates portraits of generations of her family made up of collected and inherited objects, each of which reflects the intimacies and intricacies of the lives of its owners.
Meera Margaret Singh: What We Hold is guest curated by Noa Bronstein. Co-presented in partnership with Gallery TPW, supported and circulated by the Ontario Arts Council.
This work is part of the 2025 Capture Photography Festival Selected Exhibition Program.
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