“Using the ordinary as a means to denote the profound, and landscape as a medium to transpose human struggle, the works, at times punctuated by prose, constantly slip between how power relations are imposed and how they may be transcended.”

Exhibition: “Hold Everything Dear,” by Hajra Waheed, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, September 2019.

Keywords: exhibitions, curatorial practice, art, contemporary, Hajra Waheed, space, politics, security, surveillance, power, trauma, history, memory, colonialism, violence, despair, oil, war, conflict, hope, Toronto, Canada

Image: Toni Hafkenscheid and The Power Plant