Known for combining performance, space and sculpture in their exhibitions, Elmgreen & Dragset have created a radical architectural intervention for Musée d’Orsay in Paris. Developed specifically for the museum and presenting a series of new figurative sculptures which thematise contemporary masculinities, the exhibition will establish a close dialogue with the museum’s permanent collection. As a result, visitors are welcomed to consider the similarities and differences in artistic approaches to figuration.

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The Amorepacific Museum of Art is thrilled to present Elmgreen & Dragset: Spaces. The internationally known Scandinavian artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset have continually redefined exhibition making and the ways in which art can be experienced. Presenting over sixty works within five immersive installations – a full-scale family house, a public pool, a restaurant with an adjacent kitchen, and an artist's studio – this exhibition marks their most extensive presentation in Asia to date.

Within Spaces viewers will experience new installations of unprecedented scale and form. In Exhibition Room 1, visitors can enter a 140 square meter single-family house designed by Elmgreen & Dragset, explore its various rooms dotted with sculptural works and furniture pieces, and uncover clues about the lives of its fictional inhabitants. In Exhibition Room 2, the duo will install a to-scale public pool emptied of water. This melancholic image – a recurring motif in their oeuvre – suggests the decline of civic gathering spaces and the subsequent loss of community. Finally, visitors will encounter a restaurant named The Cloud. Seemingly caught between its opening hours, the space will be empty except for a lifelike figure of a young woman in the middle of a FaceTime conversation. Other installations will include an industrial kitchen that is reminiscent of a laboratory and an artist’s studio.

Through this expansive survey of Elmgreen & Dragset’s spatial practice, the Amorepacific Museum of Art seeks to provide its visitors with the unique opportunity to uncover unexpected interpretations of everyday realities. Featuring a combination of existing and new works by Elmgreen & Dragset, these architectural interventions will encourage visitors to hunt for narrative threads embedded within the exhibition and become protagonists of the story along the way.

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