TheNeutralCityGardens is a space for works curated by Darran Pool. 

The world runs on unseen systems, structuring reality in ways that make their own workings invisible. Production and abstraction go hand in hand, pulling people further from the material conditions that define their lives. What’s made, consumed, and discarded blends into the background, leaving little space to grasp the forces that shape it.

Beneath it all, a machinery operates; not for those who sustain it with their labor, but for the continuity of a system that exists beyond their control. The superstructure of capital presents itself as progress, but its foundations rarely allow for real transformation. Under capitalism, as under bureaucratic degenerations of revolution, efficiency is treated as an end in itself, reducing individuals to mere functions within a process that subordinates meaning to production.

History is full of attempts to overthrow this machinery; some seeking to break with it entirely, others only to reshape it in their own image. Yet, time and again, the replication of power eclipses its abolition. Revolutions absorbed into the framework of the state cease to be revolutions at all, as the mechanisms they inherit gradually impose their own logic. Without rupture, the system sustains itself under different banners.