Alex Turgeon, Open-Faced Closet (Renoviction), 2024. Photo: Blaine Campbell. Courtesy of the artist.
Alex Turgeon | Waste Land
Southern Alberta Art Gallery, Lethbridge, AB - To Sep 28
In Waste Land, artist Alex Turgeon employs a mash-up of concrete poetry, sculpture and assemblage to explore intersections between urban spaces and language. Turgeon uses surrealistic juxtapositions and subverts iconic architectural tropes to critique gentrification, class division and promised utopias, placing high-rise towers inside cages and constructing lattice fencing from graffiti tags. Inviting viewers to read between the lines, Waste Land reveals that a city’s true narrative lies within its marginal spaces, where future urban landscapes can be debated and reimagined.
