Powerless structures, fig. 91
(2018)
- Medium
- Calvin Klein underwear, black Levi's
- Measurements
- (a-b) 12.5 × 114.0 × 64.0 cm (variable) (installation)
- Place/s of Execution
- Berlin, Germany
- Edition
- ed. 1/3
- Accession Number
- 2024.107.a-b
- Department
- Contemporary Art
- Credit Line
- National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased NGV Foundation, 2024
© Elmgreen & Dragset - Gallery location
- Not on display
- About this work
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Michael Elmgreen and lngar Dragset have collaborated since the mid 1990s, working across sculpture, installation and performance. Known today as Elmgreen & Dragset, the duo focuses on exploring themes related to identity, sexuality and the human body, as well as the physical and digital spaces that people create and occupy.
Initially, Elmgreen & Dragset’s work centred on the body via performance. Although moving away from performance and into larger-scale installation work using materials typically associated with construction and masculinity, many of Elmgreen & Dragset’s works continue to evoke the performative. This includes installations that invite audience participation through to those that appear to be participatory, only to be revealed as inaccessible (works the artists label ‘denials’).
Elmgreen & Dragset’s work also explores how sexuality interacts with social and architectural settings. They have transformed entire galleries into queer spaces, including locker rooms and nightclubs and continuously seek to examine and question the relationship between the human body and the spaces it occupies.