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Hajra Waheed Hold Everything Dear

ajra Waheed’s “Hold Everything Dear” at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery in Toronto, lived up to its prodigious name in a sensitive and delicate way. The exhibition was an intrepid aesthetic response to the most urgent of our contemporary political and ecological concerns. Essayistic in tenor—like critic John Berger’s 2007 collection of writings, from which the show borrowed its title—“Hold

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