by: Alexandra Cosenza, Bridget Matthews

At the Brooklyn Museum, we spent a lot of focus on the Temple, Faile. It was something that looked like it was a structure taken out of history. We were amazed by the architecture and the how contradictory the piece was. We spent a lot of time discussing the irony of the piece. Why was a temple, which should be considered a holy, sacred place, subject to raunchy advertisements? When you hear the word temple you normally think of religion and sanctuary, however that was not the case with this so-called temple. When we walked inside of it we expected to see something related to religion, but what we saw was advertisements for brothels and prostitutes in all parts of New York City. On the outside it looked as if it was actually ripped off a part of a building, and it’s ironic because on the outside of it it had the words “Sacred” and “Savage” written in bold, blue letters. Also on the outside it had images that resembled movie advertisements that you see outside of movie theatres, which they clearly were not but the way they were place on the structure made it seem like that. My group also discussed how the artist used very subtle colors such as light pinks and blues, white, beige and a little bit of black. We didn’t really go into the history of the of the Temple, but I think we went into specific details on the piece. We would love to go back and observe the piece again.
Direct Link to your video (for embedding on a class site or saving on your computer)