2027

Future Exhibitions

RE-IMAGINING THE WRONG SIDE OF THE TRACKS

Constructed panorama by Eliza Moore

@mooreeliza
www.eccentricmontage.com

May 2027 to July 2027
Opening reception Thursday, May 6, 2027 5 to 8 PM
Artist talk: Saturday, May 22 2 to 4 PM

A four-storey industrial building was constructed in 1921 at 888 Dupont Street in Toronto. It’s been used for spinning yarn, printing, and making everything from aircraft parts to brooms. And making art – 888 was an affordable space for artists in the last years of its life before demolition in 2023. But the problem of maintaining a hundred-year-old building at cheap rent levels was too much and so the previous owner sold the property and tenants were evicted.

This collage comes from my exploration of the area south of the CPR rail corridor that runs through central Toronto, reflecting on excessive urban development and gentrification as well as the historical concept of “the wrong side of the tracks”. There are now many monumental high density residential buildings on the north side of Dupont, with no attention paid either to their scale or the cost to live in them. With no credible plan to accommodate the people displaced from 888 Dupont, there are many questions about the future livability of the city.

Eliza Moore is a documentary and art photographer based in Toronto. Her work in urban design, architecture and project management creates the context for careful observation and documentation of development and conservation in the city, and the infrastructure behind it. Current works in progress are set in the Dupont-Davenport corridor, the Toronto waterfront and around the Great Lakes. For Contact 2027, Moore explores the redevelopment along Dupont Street, where the city’s industrial past is being replaced by monolithic high-density upscale residential. She laments the demolition of 888 Dupont, a former industrial building and more recently affordable studio and living space for artists. Moore’s work has been shown at Gallery 44 and the Rectory Gallery on Toronto Island, and in group shows in Toronto and Montreal.

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