To the Owner: Delivery walk, Friday 4 December

To the Owner features new and recent works by Alana Hunt, a non-Indigenous artist whose practice over the last decade has examined the contemporary violence of settler-colonialism.

One of the central works in the exhibition, To the Owner (of multiple properties) is a work that circulates inside and outside the gallery. Presented in full for the first time, it comprises the ongoing delivery of more than 3,000 oversized letters to the wealthiest streets in the wealthiest suburbs of Gadigal Nura/Sydney. Each letter contains a playful yet genuine proposition: that owners of multiple homes provide the artist with free housing for a decade. Deadpan in tone, the letters reveal the absurdity of wealth accumulation and class privilege on unceded Aboriginal Land.

The artist invites you to accompany her in the process of hand delivering these letters. The activity has been conceived as an embodied exercise in casually seeing, feeling, listening and talking our way through Sydney’s east.

The walks are an opportunity to share intimate discussions with Hunt as she thinks through the possibilities and provocations the letters spur.