MY LOVE FOR YOU BURNS ALL THE TIME
Anya Sirota+AKOAKI Exhibit Piranesian Bling from Detroit's Iconic Packard Plant
August 10-12 and by appointment through August 19
OPENING: Friday, August 10, 6-8pm
Soloway Gallery is pleased to present MY LOVE FOR YOU BURNS ALL THE TIME an exhibition of silver fragments of ruination from Detroit's iconic Packard Plant. The work by Anya Sirota + AKOAKI assembles together a series of replicas depicting sublime architectural obsolescence. The resultant survey abstracts and reveals the notorious post-industrial behemoth's chimerical appeal.
The constellation of derelict miniatures produced for MY LOVE FOR YOU BURNS ALL THE TIME suggests that the Packard Plant's stature and industrial uselessness secures its self-referential monumentality. At a precarious moment in the building's history, as buzz about imminent demolition continues to grow, the work is a commentary on contemporary fascination with representations of decay and the value of neglected sites in the collective optic.
Included in the exhibition, alongside handsome reproductions of cropped remains, AKOAKI has constructed a three dimensional sectional model from Albert Kahn's original drawings. Also shown is a video and a fully-illustrated catalogue.
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About Anya Sirota + AKOAKI
AKOAKI is a collaborative exploratory platform at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, digital media and landscape. Their work explores public space, interim uses, architectural salvage, and scenographic practice.
Anya Sirota is an Assistant Professor of Architecture at Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning, and a cofounder of AKOAKI. Sirota received her masters of architecture from Harvard's Graduate School of Design, where she earned the Araldo Cossutta Prize for Design Excellence. She holds a B.A. in modern culture and media from Brown University. Her installation work explores the appropriation of neglected sites for public function.
Additional information available at www.akoaki.com