Partners in Art is proud to support the Art Gallery of Burlington’s exhibition Roda Medhat: Things I Can Fold, Deflate, and Break. In this solo exhibition, Markham-based, Kurdish-born artist Roda Medhat’s first solo exhibition in a public gallery situates material not merely as a medium but a narrative engine. As someone who lived between cultures, migrating at a young age, Medhat’s practice emerged from the intersections of generation and place. The artist is interested in how diasporic memory operates, how war and media spectacle shape collective memory, and how to reclaim erased or overlooked narratives by folding, deflating, and breaking them. Medhat draws from a constellation of sources from archival texts to children’s stories and vernacular architecture to the geometric language of West Asian and Kurdish textiles. In this way, his works become speculative archives, weaving forgotten or oversimplified histories into forms that are pliant, luminous, and resolutely alive.  

Image Credit: Roda Medhat, Things I Can Fold, Deflate, and Break, Art Gallery of Burlington, 2026. Photo Credit: Darren Rigo