The inflatable cavatappi-shaped artwork, inspired by fashion house Bulgari’s serpent motif, will remain on view through New York Fashion Week.
September 14, 2026
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In Manhattan, a sculpture titled “auroBOROS—Urban Memory and Collective Dream” has landed on the High Line. (all photos Anna Lee/Hyperallergic)
A pre-pasta-rous sculpture has wormed its way to Manhattan’s High Line, wedged between the park’s flora like one of Carrie Bradshaw’s ringlets from Sex and the City.
Created by Berlin-based duo Plastique Fantastique (Marco Canevacci and Yena Young), “auroBOROS—Urban Memory and Collective Dream” will remain above Little West 12th Street in the Meatpacking District through September 20, running concurrently with New York Fashion Week. The robust noodle is an abstract take on fashion house Bulgari’s enduring serpent motif, which has inspired decades’ worth of jewelry that would set the average New Yorker back a decade’s rent.
Although the installation appears to be cast in gold at first glance, a hissing sound grows louder upon closer inspection. “AuroBOROS” is a synthetic inflatable, reminiscent of a foil birthday balloon, and the noise comes from two jumbo air pumps that keep the sculpture in the taut likeness of King Midas’s large intestine.
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