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Elmgreen & Dragset: Biography
Edited by Studio Elmgreen & Dragset
Published by Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern, 2014
The artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset have been collecting photos for their ever-expanding image archive, The Incidental Self, throughout their twenty-year collaboration. These intimate photos have previously been shown at galleries, museums, and biennials in Europe and Asia but are now for the first time compiled in an image-only publication, titled Biography. The book includes hundreds of private snapshots that span many events and locations, offering a glimpse of the artists’ studio, working processes, exhibitions, travels, parties, friendships, relationships, and inspirations. The contents, ranging from personal photos to those taken by friends, studio assistants, professional photographers, family, and colleagues, give the impression of an oversized and rather absurd family photo album, focusing on a masculine reality. As a whole, the selection of images creates a fluid perception of what today can be called a “self.”
Published in conjunction with the two-part exhibition of the same title at Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo (March 21–August 24, 2014) and SMK: Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen (September 19, 2014–January 4, 2015).
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Design: Studio Elmgreen & DragsetReproductions and Additional Graphic Design: Elmar Vestner
Production: Katja Jaeger, Hatje Cantz
Production Assistance: Anita Iannacchione and Anja Schiller, Studio Elmgreen & Dragset