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How I Held

Collective release gesture

Join the artist on August 23 to listen to the ways strangers have held each other and to take part in a collective release gesture.

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Salima punjani

Holding Release is a gesture of mutual support, hosted at the HALTE. Visitors will be invited to release something that feels heavy for them, and to support someone else with an act of mutual holding.

How I held - collective release gesture
La HALTE, 2:00 to 3:30 PM, 23 Août


Holding, Release is an artistic gesture created by Salima Punjani. 


This project was made to acknowledge the chaotic and difficult reality of our existence in these times. How it can feel a bit hopeless and helpless to provide support to people who need it. Holding, Release is a simple practice of letting go and holding in a way that feels possible. A small act of consideration for what a stranger is going through. A humble action of trusting that someone else may be able to hold whatever you have to share, and that they are trusting you to do the same. 


Join the artist on August 23 to listen to the ways strangers have held each other and to take part in a collective release gesture. You will be guided through a series of listening prompts while releasing and transforming what was held in the bottles. We will dissolve the materials into warm hand baths and soak our hands in them. Holding and releasing, together. 


Salima Punjani

Salima Punjani is a multisensory artist grounded in relational aesthetics. A common thread through all of her work is the creation of environments that allow for receptivity of connection. She is particularly interested in how multiple senses can be used to expand the possibilities for people to feel welcome in art spaces as well as to create artful experiences of empathy, intimacy, and connection. Her recent work explores themes such as mutual care, collective grief, rest as resistance to systemic injustice and how medical data can be subverted into finding human connection rather than pathologies.

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