My Love For You Burns All the Time was an exhibition of “Piranesian Bling” presented at the Soloway Gallery in Brooklyn. The project assembled a series of silver-plated replicas derived from fragments of Detroit’s Packard Plant, translating post-industrial excess into objects of improbable refinement.
The constellation of miniature ruins foregrounded the Packard Plant’s paradoxical condition: monumental precisely through obsolescence. As speculation around the building’s demolition intensified, the work functioned as a critique of the contemporary fascination with ruin imagery and the aestheticization of decay. By rendering dereliction precious, the exhibition interrogated how neglect, scale, and industrial failure are converted into cultural value.
The exhibition also included photographic studies of cropped architectural fragments, a sectional model developed from Albert Kahn’s original drawings, and a video work, situating the project within a broader investigation of representation, scale, and architectural memory.
2012
Soloway Gallery, Williamsburg, New York
Scale:
800 SF
Principals:
Anya Sirota, Jean Louis Farges
Design Team:
Allen Gillers, Bruce Findling, Lauren Bebry
Plating:
Alex Belykh, Mark Cummiff
Catalogue:
My Love for You Burns All the Time