Installation view of Elmgreen & Dragset's "Shadow House" (2024) at the duo's exhibition, titled "Spaces," at the Amorepacific Museum of Art in central Seoul / Courtesy of the artists and Amorepacific Museum of Art Provocative Scandinavian artist duo's largest exhibition in Asia lands at Amorepacific Museum of Art By Park Han-sol At the entrance of a sleek, glass-and-concrete home hangs a mirror with a curious message scrawled across its surface: “See you never!” Beneath it, a once-vibrant bouquet of roses lies wilted, as though forgotten in haste. Who left these cryptic words, and who were they meant for? The house feels abandoned, yet the story it hides is only beginning to unravel. As visitors step inside the seemingly deserted residence, they find themselves in the role of voyeuristic intruders, playing amateur detectives to piece together the lives of the absent occupants.
Clues are scattered in every corner of the 140-square-meter house — a study cluttered with architectural sketches and models, a child’s bedroom drained of color and joy, a family portrait of a woman and a boy, and finally, the boy himself, left all alone, gazing vacantly out the living room window. As visitors step inside the seemingly deserted residence of "Shadow House," they find themselves in the role of voyeuristic intruders, playing amateur detectives to piece together the lives of the absent occupants through hidden clues. Korea Times photo by Park Han-sol The eerily lifelike mannequin an.
