Cassie Paine: Pedestrian Values Exhibit

Pedestrian Values reflects on economic shifts, labour patterns, and development in post-industrial cities. Using metal fabrication casting and interventionist tactics to alter coded materials and infrastructure found in public space, Paine’s installations reveal underlying power structures in urban environments, critiquing capitalist value systems focused on profit and development, exposing how these ideals are built into our everyday environment.

The recurring banknote pattern from the board game Monopoly serves as an explicit critique of capital’s control over spatial relations. It carries through the exhibition, adorning a traffic barrel, cast coins scattered across the floor of the gallery, and a construction privacy mesh.

This exhibition is made possible through the generous support of the George Taylor Richardson Memorial Fund.