ELMGREEN y DRAGSET. CELEBRITY

In their latest monograph, the Danish-Norwegian duo Elmgreen y Dragset address the world of celebrity: rumor-mongering, life in the public eye, the mechanisms of the media, its formation of myths and how those myths endlessly bombard us with staged presentations o f the self. Two allegorical installations on celebrity and its implications of the one (the celebrity) and the many (the rest of us) were devised for the duo's exhibition at the ZKM - Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, and are here documented across 100 ...