Michelle Peraza’s multimedia exhibition ‘Tú eres mi otro yo: Mundos, Mundo, Worlds’ is on view at the Tom Thomson Art Gallery in Owen Sound, Ontario, through October 3. The exhibition, which opened July 4, brings together a practice concerned with postcolonial identity, interconnection and the possibilities of healing amid social, environmental and geological change.
Peraza is a second-generation Latin American Canadian of Cuban and Costa Rican descent. The exhibition description situates her work within a sustained engagement with personal and collective forms of repair, linking questions of identity to broader transformations in the environments and systems people inhabit. Rather than treating these subjects separately, her practice considers how individual experience, inherited histories and the natural world can remain connected.
The works draw on Mesoamerican worldviews and traditional healing approaches. Peraza also uses the idea of “re-worlding”—a process of imagining or making different ways of relating—as a framework for her multimedia production. The gallery describes these works as reflections on how healing might unfold in response to changes that are simultaneously social, environmental and geological.
The exhibition is also guided by what the gallery calls a reverence for celestial and earthly rhythms. That emphasis places cycles, interdependence and the relationship between bodily experience and the wider world at the centre of the presentation. A promotional image for the exhibition shows a large circular mixed-media installation arranged on the gallery floor, with stitched and dyed surfaces, geometric forms and a braided, serpent-like border.
The image credit identifies the featured work as Michelle Peraza’s ‘Implictus and Incognitus Inter-Cosmologies’, made in 2025. The work is listed as mixed media and is courtesy of the artist. No additional details about the exhibition’s total number of works, installation design or related public programming were provided in the available material.
The presentation forms part of the Tom Thomson Art Gallery’s 2026 exhibition programme. Other exhibitions listed by the gallery include ‘Forecast – June to January’, a two-part series examining bodily attunement to weather cycles through works by Tom Thomson and selections from the collection, and ‘Markle – Content is Just a Glimpse’, co-produced with the Durham Art Gallery and presented simultaneously at both institutions. Those projects are separate from Peraza’s solo exhibition.
The Tom Thomson Art Gallery is located at 840 1st Avenue West in Owen Sound. The gallery’s listed hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., with admission by donation and a suggested donation of $10. ‘Tú eres mi otro yo: Mundos, Mundo, Worlds’ continues at the gallery until October 3, 2026.
