My-Van Dam: Holding Space | Virtual Artist Talk

© My-Van Dam, Connecting from the Inside Out, film still, 2024.

My-Van Dam: Holding Space

Virtual Artist Talk: October 24, 2026, 1–2pm
Zoom Link

Exhibition on view until October 31, 2026
Artspace Peterborough, Nogojiwanong/Peterborough

Join Artspace for this virtual artist talk featuring My-Van Dam, who will discuss her current exhibition at Artspace, Holding Space. The exhibition brings together moving images, sculpture, and drawing to explore how embodied memory, intergenerational trauma, and processes of collective repair shape how we relate to ourselves and one another.

The exhibition features the film Connecting from the Inside Out, in which My-Van Dam explores somatic voice and movement through a collaboration with four performers. Breath, contact, and deep listening become pathways toward individual and collective repair, revealing how bodies co-regulate through relationships of interdependence.

Portrait of My-Van Dam. Photo: Hamza Abouellouafaa.

Echoing these shared experiences, drawings unfold as visual and choreographic scores that trace embodied memory and map the emotional landscape between self and other. Sculptural works extend this dialogue into space, translating internal states into material form. Through knots, braided textiles, and layers of resin and plaster, they hold the tension between movement and stillness, rigidity and flexibility, allowing memory to take on a physical presence.

Holding Space invites visitors to slow down and inhabit a space of presence, where embodied memory, vulnerability, and interdependence open possibilities for transformation.

Artspace Peterborough
378 Aylmer Street North
Peterborough, ON K9H 3V8
gallery@artspaceptbo.ca | 705-748-3883
www.artspaceptbo.ca

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Image Descriptions:
1. Film still of My-Van Dam performance, Connecting from the Inside Out, 2024.
2. A portrait of My-Van Dam leaning against a window and looking at the camera, taken by Hamza Abouellouafaa.