City Fabric

221A and the Burrard Arts Foundation are pleased to present City Fabric, an installation located under the south side of Burrard Bridge, directly above the seawall by Vancouver-based artist Rebecca Bayer and artist/architect Matthew Soules.

The installation is made up of construction safety netting, a material designed for temporary use that has become iconic in Vancouver—a city that since the 1980s has been under intensive real estate speculation and development. Typically used to protect passersby from construction hazards, ten sections of the netting (amounting to 800 lineal feet) have been stretched between the concrete piers of the Burrard Street Bridge. City Fabric cherishes the temporary permanence of construction debris netting; beautiful, impoverished for its utilitarian use, yet profoundly normal.