Memory Hole is a solo exhibition at Galerie B-312 in Montreal.
Memory never arrives the same way twice. It is layered, fragmented, composed of impressions and blurred edges. In this new body of work, Yaldo connects memory with the hole. The latter can reveal as much as it conceals; it frames and contains. In the memory hole, things are deposited, forgotten, and brought back to consciousness.
Using a variety of techniques and materials, from 3D printing to handcrafted ceramics, the artist appropriates Mesopotamian forms, not to reconstruct, but to linger on the resonances that emerge from them. Her works exist in a space between ruin and reconstruction, in which memory shifts, fractures, and persists. The artist imagines her exhibition as a missing register of the Warka Vase, one of the earliest surviving works of narrative relief sculpture, discovered in the temple complex of the Sumerian goddess Inanna, whose images have been erased over time.