| Item Description: | Collaged from language collected using the obscure keyword "Finkl"--obituaries, case histories, old Chicago legends, gossip columns, political speeches and online posts--FORGERY is a lyrical essay on industrial and personal dislocation--a strange choreography of urban conquest and collapse--centered on a 130-year-old Chicago steel forge. Founded in 1879 by German immigrant Anton Finkl, A. Finkl & Sons Co. still operates today on Chicago's Near North Side. Last vestige of an industrial era, the company produces die forgings noisily and with a good deal of dirty emissions alongside one of the city's more affluent neighborhoods, where spas and plastic surgeons, shops for handmade cosmetics and luxury chocolates extend off one of the busiest commercial corridors in Chicago. |
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