Cleveland installation has Detroit inspiration

If you happen to find yourself in Cleveland between now and early January, be sure to head to the Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MOCA) for an art installation that features Detroit.

Titled, “Unit 1: 3583 Dubois,” the work by Anders Ruhwald recreates the a Detroit building’s identity through a series rooms and corridors. “Using charred wood, ash, molten glass, found objects, and black-glazed ceramics, Ruhwald meticulously composes an immersive, richly sensorial experience that is at once dramatic, nostalgic, and uncanny,” says a description on MOCA’s website.

Model D’s sister publication in Cleveland, Fresh Water, also visited the exhibit and came away with this fascinating description: “Unit 1 does include two sensual components the other exhibits lack,” writes Erin O’Brien. “Not only does it smell of charred wood evocative of campfires as well as arson, visitors are encouraged to do something that might otherwise get them asked to leave a museum: touch all the interior components of the mysterious space, some of which offer a primal element of life: warmth.”

At the end of its run in Cleveland, Ruhwald will transport the installation back to Detroit for permanent relocation.

“Unit 1: 3583 Dubois” will be on display at the MOCA until January 8, 2017.