Ayam Yaldo is interested in memory as a layered and fragmented thing, composed of impressions and blurred edges: a memory never arrives the same way twice. She connects memory to the figure of a hole, which both reveals and conceals.
Yaldo’s iterative practice is made up of fragments of forgotten things brought back to life, mostly drawing on imagery of Mesopotamian artifacts from the ancient city-state of Uruk. The forms she works with arrive via varied processes of aging, excavation, and displacement. Her works occupy a space somewhere between ruin and reconstruction, where memory, though it persists, also fractures. They operate as imprecise historical tablets, or impressions partially erased. Engaging with, though altering, the codes and conventions of archaeology, in her fragmentory assemblages Yaldo proposes a personal and poetic history of absence.
Ayam Yaldo is an interdisciplinary artist based in Montréal. Her practice includes video, performance, ceramics, sculpture, and installation. She earned both her BFA and MFA from the Intermedia Department at Concordia University. Yaldo’s work engages in a process of unearthing and world-building, drawing from personal memory and historical documentation to explore her Mesopotamian heritage. She investigates the complex relationships between object, artifact, and history. Currently, Yaldo is a 2023–2026 artist-in-residence at Fonderie Darling in Montréal. Recent solo exhibitions were hosted by Galerie B-312 in Montréal (2025) and Franz Kaka in Toronto (2023).
