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 is a visual artist based in Tkaronto/Toronto, Canada. She holds a BA in Anthropology, a BFA in Photography from the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg, and an MFA from Concordia University, Montreal. Singh has been the recipient of numerous residencies and awards, most notably Canada Council for the Arts, Ontario Arts Council and Toronto Arts Council grants. She has exhibited widely in group and solo exhibitions throughout Canada and internationally, including What We Hold, Selected Exhibition at the 2025 Capture Photography Festival, Cambridge Art Gallery, Cambridge, 2025 (also exhibited at Evergreen Gallery, Coquitlam, 2025, Kenderdine Art Gallery, Saskatoon, 2025, and Gallery TPW, 2024), A Matter of Time, curated by Nawang Tsomo Kinkar, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg (2025), The work itself, curated by Nuria Carton de Grammont, Centre d’exposition L’Imagier, Gatineau (2020) and Floating World, curated by Fan Liu, Xuanzhi Art Museum, Fuzhou, China (2018). She is currently an Associate Professor in Photography and the current Chair of Photography, Printmaking & Publications at OCAD University.

Noa Bronstein is a curator and writer based in Toronto. She has previously stewarded two leading artist-run centres through her role as the Executive Director of Gallery 44 Centre for Contemporary Photography and Gallery TPW. In 2018, in her position as Senior Curator at the City of Mississauga, she oversaw the opening of the Small Arms Inspection Building with programming by local and international artists, including Diane Borsato, Stephanie Comilang, Amy Malbeuf, Dawit L. Petros and Kara Springer, and partnerships with the Peel Aboriginal Network and the Toronto Biennial of Art, amongst many others. Noa has curated and programmed projects/exhibitions at institutions across Canada, including at the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Contemporary Calgary, The Rooms (St. John’s), Doris McCarthy Gallery (Toronto) and The New Gallery (Calgary). Her writing has appeared in publications including Artforum, Border Crossings, C Magazine, Canadian Art, esse art + opinions and The Journal of Curatorial Studies. She is currently the Assistant Director of the Art Museum at the University of Toronto.