ELMGREEN & DRAGSET
Installing Useless Bodies?

by Elmgreen & Dragset

For four years, Michael Elmgreen (b. 1961 in Copenhagen, Denmark) and Ingar Dragset (b. 1969 in Trondheim, Norway) worked on their major solo exhibition, transforming the new spaces of the Fondazione Prada in Milan into several immersive installations, which address the loss of the role of the body in the post-industrial age. An exclusive peek into their WhatsApp conversation.

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Elmgreen & Dragset (Michael Elmgreen, born 1961 in Copenhagen, Denmark and Ingar Dragset, born 1969 in Trondheim, Norway, live and work in Berlin) pursue questions of identity and belonging from a socio-cultural perspective in their artistic practice. Since 1995, they have been working together at the interface of art, design, and architecture with a focus on sculpture and installation. They are interested in the discourse that can arise when objects are re-contextualized and when the normal modes for presenting the art are altered. Their works often challenge the institutional context in which they are exhibited – both in a spatial ma...