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Elmgreen & Dragset

<p>A vintage Mercedes Benz bearing Russian license plates is parked outside Art Basel. Inside the car one is surprised to find realistic looking figures of two young men sleeping on the flattened seats of the trunk, embracing each other, spooning. Artworks in bubble wrap, snacks, and magazines surround them. Visible, too, is a lanyard with an installer’s pass to this year’s fair and a map of the exhibition hall. Like a 3-dimensional film still, the sculptural installation The Outsiders is as much of an ode to love as to the teamwork and the hard labor that goes into the preparations of spectacular events, such as Art Basel. The Outsiders seeks to create acknowledgement for those behind the scenes, personalizing the unseen work of the installers. This work, in keeping with the artists’ oeuvre, challenges the traditions and structures of the art world, its institutional settings, and conventional exhibition-labor practices.</p><p><strong>Elmgreen &amp; Dragset</strong> (Michael Elmgreen, born 1961 in Copenhagen; Ingar Dragset, born 1969 in Trondheim) have worked together since 1995. The artists’ sculptures and installations pursue questions of identity and belonging, and the duo often challenges the traditional white cube presentation of the art object by situating their works in whole or reconfigured environments. They live and work in Berlin.</p>

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