Alex Sinh Nguyen

Reliques galvaniques
When the last religious buildings fall and their corroded stones merge with the concrete, what will be left of the sacred?
In the heart of cities, steel cathedrals now surround ailing buildings and reshape the landscape. These scaffoldings remind me of the metal perfusions where the last nerves were still feverishly pulsating in the temples. As a final tribute to these galvanised connectors, a baptism is organised to elevate them to the rank of sacred relics. May this Rearden metal be canonised and may its ephemeral support become immortal and eternal!
Galvanic Relics is an encounter between design and liturgical artefacts, opening up a contemporary perspective on objects that transcend time and culture. Scaffolding structures outlive places of worship: reinterpreted as preaching platforms, they maintain a space for the expression of piety. Galvanised relics are a marker of history in constant evolution, a fusion of past, present and future.
See La Grève, 1957: author Ayn Rand places Rearden metal, an indestructible material created by a steel magnate, at the heart of political blackmail in a declining America.