Abstract
Anya Sirota’s Bling It On series assembles recent architectural interventions based on superimposition. Siding with expediency, popular iconography, and scenographic tectonics, the works exploit the perceived dissonance between contemporaneity and obsolescence in order to reveal new possibilities in overlooked urban scenarios. Each project is sited in a polemical context: the Detroit Packard Plant rooftop, a defunct tannery in Amilly, France, the Federal Screw Works Plant in Chelsea, Michigan, and most recently an unmarked garage in Detroit’s storied North End. Combining objects, people, and experiences, the sequence of temporary constructs in vulnerable sites explores architecture as an aesthetic process, which aims for visual impact despite—or more precisely on account of—the modesty of its material circumstances.
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