LESS IS MORGUE

Elmgreen & Dragset’s new show at Milan’s Fondazione Prada is an uncanny exploration of our dematerialising bodies and increasingly discomforting homes

- TF CHAN

Zigzagging aluminium walls; an impossibly sleek kitchen inspired by the work of Donald Judd; a ring-shaped conference table with tubular supports – these are some of the defining features of Elmgreen & Dragset’s latest fictional home, installed in the Nord gallery of Milan’s Fondazione Prada. Over the years, inspired by the ways in which domestic spaces can express our identities and desires, the Berlin-based artists have created many detailed installations that evoke the lives of imaginary inhabitants, from the art collector Mr B, whose corpse lay adrift in the pool outside their Venice Pavilion, to the elderly architect Norman Swann, soon to be evicted from his apartment at the V&A (see W*175). In comparison, the fictional owner of the Fondazione Prada home is even more eccentric and elusive. His belongings suggest enormous wealth and power, but also considerable paranoia.