"At the center of Mirage Factory a miniaturized version of Hollywood Boulevard with landmarks like Grauman's Chinese Theatre, El Capitan, Musso & Frank's, and the Hollywood Hotel, as well as a Hollywood memorabilia souvenir shop, an Arby's sign, red-brick buildings, muscle cars, and billboards from different eras like one for an upcoming election in the '30s that reads "VOTE FOR WATER OR DESERT.""
"In red text, the marquee reads " Alex Prager's Mirage Factory," and it is the latest project by the Los Angeles-based artist. Once inside, visitors to will experience three distinct constructed set pieces that show various parts of Los Angeles history. "I wanted to have Mirage Factory to be like a poem, a kind of a visual poem, in a way, about certain movements that happened that were so significant to the city's creation," Prager told ARTnews in a recent interview."
Alex Prager's Mirage Factory occupies a marquee on Miami Beach's Lincoln Road and presents three constructed set pieces representing facets of Los Angeles history. The central installation is a 1:12 scale Hollywood Boulevard populated by landmarks, memorabilia, muscle cars, and era-specific billboards, culminating in a silver depiction of water from the Los Angeles Aqueduct. The condensed, relocated streetscape creates a cinematic, unnerving perspective that mimics set design. The installation is framed by a real orange grove enhanced with scented fake fruit and a lush Griffith Park garden-party scene with a kidney-shaped pool, martini bar, and a hidden cocktail-party work using chilling special-effects makeup.
Read at ARTnews.com
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