TOWN + COUNTRY: NARRATIVES OF PROPERTY AND CAPITAL
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TOWN + COUNTRY: NARRATIVES OF PROPERTY AND CAPITAL

Architects Against Housing Alienation // Rodney Graham // Gabrielle L’Hirondelle Hill // Karin Jones // Tiziana La Melia // Carel Moiseiwitsch // Alex Morrison // Janet Wang // Holly Ward // Tania Willard // Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun

Central Gallery
July 20 to September 21, 2024

Curated by Caitlin Jones, Charo Neville, and Melanie O’Brian

Town + Country: Narratives of Property and Capital troubles the enduring narrative binary of town and country. Borders between these two terrains have always morphed and slipped around each other theoretically, politically, economically, and socially, yet the narrative of the urban/rural divide persists. Indigenous land dispossession and reclamation, capital accumulation in the form of real-estate assets, labour, and technological development are all obscured by this persistent fiction. Town and country narratives similarly obscure questions of class, freedom of movement, and resource extraction.

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