Installation view
of “SPACES” ©Amorepacific Museum of
ArtAmorepacific Museum of Art is hosting the
contemporary art exhibition “SPACES” by Elmgreen & Dragset, until February
23, 2025.
Elmgreen & Dragset, a world-renowned
artist duo from Scandinavia, are celebrated in this exhibition, which is the
largest of its kind in Asia. The exhibition commemorates their 30 years of
collaboration by showcasing their works centered on the concept of space. Over
the years, Elmgreen & Dragset have focused on themes of 'home' and
'domesticity.' In this exhibition, the artists extend these themes by
incorporating architectural elements to explore the meaning of space.
Elmgreen & Dragset,
Shadow House,, 2024 ©Amorepacific Museum of Art.
Photo by Andrea Rossetti.The
exhibition features five large-scale spatial installations, including a
swimming pool, house, restaurant, kitchen, and the artists' studio. Each space
unfolds in a discontinuous manner, much like scrolling through images of
anonymous users on social media.
This
mirrors the way everyday life exists between digital and physical realms. As
visitors move through the spaces, they can discover and piece together hidden
clues, completing the narrative that the artists have initiated.
Elmgreen & Dragset,
The Cloud,, 2024 ©Amorepacific Museum of Art. Photo by Andrea Rossetti.In the
first exhibition hall, visitors can explore a 140-square-meter house with a
living room, kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom, searching for clues about an
imaginary resident. In the second exhibition room, they will encounter a large,
empty swimming pool, a recurring motif in the artists' work, symbolizing the
decline of public spaces and the loss of community today.
The
exhibition also includes The Cloud, an installation
resembling a restaurant, where visitors, seated in the hall, come face-to-face
with the blurred boundaries between reality and fiction, much like the figure
engaged in a video call. Other rooms feature a laboratory-like kitchen and an
atelier space, offering a glimpse into the process of creating artwork.
Ji Yeon Lee has been working as an editor for the media art and culture channel AliceOn since 2021 and worked as an exhibition coordinator at samuso (now Space for Contemporary Art) from 2021 to 2023.
