Holding Me,
Holding You

Pamela Hadley
January 10 - February 01, 2026

Opening Reception

Saturday, January 10, 5-8 pm

Open Hours

Sat-Sun 12-5 pm
drop in or by appointment 

Email info@carnationcontemporary.com
to schedule a visit

Program Schedule

Talk

Saturday, Jan. 24th, 7:00 pm:
From Rhizomatic to Lichen Politics: Habitation as a form of Revolutionary-Becoming in the work of Pamela Hadley, a discussion with Dr. Grant Vetter. grantvetter.info|@grant.vetter

Dance Party & PIRC Benefit

Saturday, Jan. 24th, 8:30 - 11:30 pm: Immediately following the discussion with Dr. Vetter, join us and bring a friend for some fun and community at Disjecta, right next door to Carnation. We will be raising money for donation to Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. The exhibition will remain open for viewing during the party.

Sonar Session

Sunday, Jan. 25th, 5:00 - 6:30 pm: (new time)
Sharing strategies for grief, resilience, and solidarity. Bring an excerpt from a reading that is getting you through this time, especially if it helps to inspire strength and action. We will gather in the exhibition, in the dark, and take turns reading to each other. If you prefer, someone can read for you. Or, play a section from a podcast that you find particularly meaningful.

Details for all events can be found at pamelahadley.com.

RSVP appreciated, but not required.

Voluntary contributions are welcome, but all events are free to attend.

EXHIBITION

Pamela Hadley’s Holding Me, Holding You, is an immersive installation featuring abstract projection-mapped animation and sound compositions that open paths to new futures through ecology, relational aesthetics, and the phenomenological.

Slowness is not just a method; it is a core strategy of Hadley’s practice—a deliberate act of healing from and resistance against a culture that often reduces the value of human life to what one produces while prioritizing rapid consumption and immediate outcomes. Facilitated here by perceptual experience, slowness and stillness invite reflection and connection and create space to imagine the ways in which we will remake our world.

Visitors are ushered into the darkness by small light works before discovering the full-room installation that is the focal point of this show. There, they will navigate the space, each other, and, if they remain still for long enough, perhaps the sequestered locales within their own inner landscape.

ARTIST

Pamela Hadley is an artist making time-based, immersive light installations. Believing that the phenomenological can be an agent of social change, their work utilizes perceptual experiences to engage people in a direct relationship with themselves and the world as a way to heal and to remember that we have the power to effect real change. Hadley has participated in exhibitions and artist residencies across the US, including the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, OR, and High Dessert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA, and lives in Portland, OR. Hadley earned an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA from the Corcoran College of Art and Design.


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