Art Gallery of Peel

Peel Heritage Complex

9 Wellington St. E., Brampton

June 26, 2008 – September 7, 2008  

The show investigates the psychology of adjacent places: cities which develop next to other urban centers, communities built for factories and their workers, parallel suburbs reproduced half-way around the world, and among others, a dream home conceived in the correspondence of an artist and a penitentiary inmate.

The exhibition considers the relationship of cities like Brampton and Mississauga in Peel Region to larger neighbouring urban centres such as Toronto. Rather than producing a survey on Peel Region, the exhibition considers adjacency as a perspective, through artists’ projects that show communities which develop in reference to others, speculating the formation of new communities and urban design, as some instances in which communities and people define themselves in relationship to regions and people adjacent to them. 

Artists: Adrian Blackwell, Eric Glavin, Felicitas Rohden, The Arbour Lake Sghool, Henry Tsang, Corin Sworn, Jackie Sumell with Herman Wallace

Curated by: Tejpal Ajji and Atanas Bozdarov

For more information, please contact the Art Gallery of Peel at 905 791 4055 or

peelheritageprograms@peelregion.ca; or check www.peelheritagecomplex.org.