Prada Marfa is a permanently installed sculpture by artists Elmgreen and Dragset, not in nearby Marfa, Texas, but near the town of Valentine.
As Michael Elmgreen said in a recent interview with Texas Monthly, “[Prada Marfa] was meant as a critique of the luxury goods industry, to put a shop in the middle of the desert.”
Sep 27, 2013
The installation was inaugurated on October 1, 2005. The artists called the work a “pop architectural land art project.” The sculpture, completed with the assistance of American architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello, cost $80,000 and was intended to never be repaired so that it might slowly degrade back into the natural landscape.
This plan was dashed when, three days after the sculpture was completed, vandals graffitied the exterior and broke into the building, stealing handbags and shoes.
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