The Housing Question: Helen Grace and Narelle Jubelin

The Housing Question explores housing, safety and security. Starting from Australia, where Helen Grace lives, and Spain, where Narelle Jubelin is based, the exhibition examines intimate experiences of home, then opens out to embrace the complex conditions of the contemporary world. The Housing Question takes its title from Friedrich Engles’s seminal 1872 texts addressing severe housing shortages in his native Germany. After nearly 150 years, this question remains pressing today: what are basic human rights to secure and affordable housing? What are one’s rights to housing when one is displaced, as millions of people are today? Grace and Jubelin’s new...