This is a crazy wonderful thing! In the middle of nowhere suddenly you pass this small store that says "Prada Marfa" on it. When you stop and look inside, you see shelves of shoes, and in the foreground, six very expensive handbags. The bottoms of the handbags are cut out, and there is only one shoe of a pair on the shelves, so don't bother to break in!
Both the shoes and the handbags were selected from the 2005 Prada collection. The front door doesn't work, so you can't go inside.
This building is explained this way: "Prada Marfa is a permanent sculptural art installation by artists Elmgreen & Dragset, located along U.S. Route 90 in Texas, about 26 miles northwest of Marfa. The installation, in the form of a freestanding building—specifically a Prada storefront—was inaugurated on October 1, 2005. The artists described the work as a "pop architectural land art project." So this is really astounding to see, especially because there is nothing else within miles of this building. And as you can imagine, it is a huge tourist attraction. After we stopped there were several people photographing the building - I think I waited ten minutes for all the other photographers to leave so I could get a shot of the building all by itself, but then when editing the photographs, I thought it was more informational to have a person in the photograph to give a sense of scale to the size of the building.
4 comments:
This is funny! It must be surprising as you are driving through the vast desert like land and come upon this. It seems so out of place but it's definitely interesting and unique! Trace
What a great expression of artistic creativity! Thank you for sharing.
Seems like such a crazy idea 20 years ago and yet look at all of the tourists stopping to inspect this artistic creation in the middle of the desert.
I remember that Amy posted a photo of Prada Marfa a while ago. I did not realize that it was an art installation and not a store! Betsey
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