Vicky Talwar offers a meditation on hybridity, memory, and spiritual continuity. Rooted in her experience as a Hindu-Canadian artist, Talwar interlaces South Asian ritual and aesthetic traditions with the layered realities of diasporic life in Canada. Through vibrant colours, textured surfaces, and recurring motifs such as flower garlands, mala beads and sacred threads, her paintings become spaces of reflection and transformation. Many of her works are intentionally created with multiple panels, which plays a vital role not only in composition but in meaning: diptychs and triptychs unfold as visual journeys, offering multiple perspectives on a theme, or mapping a transition from one state of being to another.

The exhibition included a luminous salt crystal mandala installation and a collaboration with Buddhist monk Lama Jam, who present a Sound Energy Healing Mandala Performance. Across media, Talwar’s work honours the act of becoming and invites us to consider the power of creative intention as a form of healing and belonging.  

Artwork courtesy of the artist. Special thanks to Lama Jam.
Exhibition documentation by Dennis Hristovski. Documentation of the Sound Energy Healing Mandala Performance by Juicebox Studios.