By bye Avondale 2025, Installation view of bye-bye earth in 15 seconds by olivier, Photo: Jonas Müller-Ahlheim
By bye avondale opens up the vanished, industrial spaces of the historic ilg factory on pulaski rd during their transition from artist spaces to life storage units.
Originally designed by Chicago architect Alfred Alschuler in 1906, the former ventilation factory faces extensive remodeling after housing artists for the past decade. "Wary of tales that naturalize displacement, this moment invites the question: how do intervals of artistic reprieve and labor prelude, not only intervene in, storage unit monoculture?"