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    The Gas Imaginary: Rachel O’Reilly

    Feb 15, 2021 4 minutes
    by JONAH GRAY

    Or Gallery, Vancouver

    October 2–December 19, 2020

    The signal work of Rachel O’Reilly’s exhibition, at Or Gallery, is the hour-long single-channel documentary video (2019), in which the artist interviews Aboriginal anti-fracking activists in the Northern Territory of Australia. Another shorter video, (2018), combines 3-D renderings and drone footage with voice-over narration that pulls on recent research into the Torrens title-of-property registration pioneered in Australia in the 19th century. Nine inkjet prints of computer-rendered diagrams hung along the back wall echo the surreal, axonometric views of and interleave a handwritten commentary between the exploded layers of landscape, boats, figures, stacked turtles, and dugongs. Finally, a large drawing—which had yet to be installed when I visited the show—spans the west

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