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Hygienic Dress League is pleased to present “Value Proposition” an exhibition of three site-specific installations that explores the disconnect between humanity, value and environment. The installation will take place at Conners Creek – the location of DTE Energy’s former power plant situated on Detroit’s east side on over 75 acres of waterfront land. Conceptual artist-duo Steve and Dorota Coy, who operate under the moniker Hygienic Dress League, will offer the opportunity to discover their largest works to date in a single, immersive outdoor environment.

Value Proposition finds the Hygienic Dress League creating three new outdoor installations. The Spirit Of The Forest features a sculptural installation of human figures with deer heads that are cast in aluminum and composed of UV lights and UV paint. While A life-size model elephant covered with more than 350,000 aurora borealis (AB) rhinestones and weighing 600 pounds is brought in for Dystopian Zoo II. Last but not is Diamond II, a large-scale, diamond-shaped light installation that references the diamond-water paradox of value.

Detroit, Michigan

Dorota (b. 1978, Poland) and Steve Coy (b. 1978, USA) are a husband and wife conceptual and visual artist duo based in Detroit. Their current project, Hygienic Dress League (HDL, HDL, Corp.), is a conceptual art project that uses a legally registered corporation as a new and original form of art. Their large-scale public interventions and immersive environments use a variety of mediums including the “found object” and often leverage technology in ways that produce unique experiences. Their work is often epistemological in nature and explores aspects of the human condition and contemporary society while challenging reality, truth, and belief systems. Projects are often speculative in nature and are influenced by various aspects of other art movements, notably conceptual art, relational aesthetics, surrealism, and street art. The symbolic imagery creates a paradox of image and concept resulting in an aesthetic that has been described as “Dystopian Glamour.”

The couple’s public installations have been exhibited on numerous occasions in Detroit, MI, and they have appeared internationally in cities including London, England; Berlin, Germany; Montreal, Canada; and Madrid, Spain, among others. In 2017 their work was the subject of a solo exhibition at the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo in Bogota, Colombia. They have also recently completed residencies in France for Project DeDale, Portugal for Art Loures Publica, and in Buenos Aires for the cheLA Foundation. Their work has been featured in notable outlets including The New York Times, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone Magazine, The Economist, NYLON, CityLab, HuffPost, and Politiken.

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