Powerless Structures, Fig. 82
Elmgreen & Dragset
Elmgreen & Dragset
Powerless Structures Fig. 82, 1999
Plastic pipe, black pigment, transparency, light box, fluorescent lamp 6 x 6 cm (peephole)
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
Installation view: Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2006
© VEGAP, Madrid 2026 | Photo: Franz Wamhof
Elmgreen & Dragset
Powerless Structures Fig. 82, 1999
Plastic pipe, black pigment, transparency, light box, fluorescent lamp 6 x 6 cm (peephole), 5 x 5 cm (moon)
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
© VEGAP, Madrid 2026 | Photo: Courtesy of Galerie Klosterfelde
- Date
- 2003
- Medium
- Plastic pipe, black pigment, transparency, lightbox, fluorescent lamp
- Dimension
- 6 x 6 cm (peephole)
- Credit
TBA21 Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection
- This artwork is part of the donation and long-term loan from TBA21 to the Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza.
Details
Elmgreen & Dragset’s Powerless Structures series examines the destabilization of the traditional art space. In this series of projects, the artists challenge the conventional perception of space: architectural and social structures are reorganized in order to investigate the desires underlying everyday objects and the mechanisms of ideological control structuring even the simplest arrangements of walls, ceilings, entrances and exits. Elmgreen & Dragset identify/employ natural forces as a means to suppress and extend experience within the rarefied territory of exhibition design and the white cube space.
Powerless Structures, Fig. 82 brings the full moon into the spatial enclosure of the gallery, making millions of celestial gazers in fields and rooftops everywhere seem quite private in comparison.
