The London and Berlin-based artists Elmgreen & Dragset have transformed, with ""Tomorrow", several of the museum’s rooms, into the apartment of a fictional, elderly and disillusioned architect.
Tomorrow is an immersive and intriguing installation which invites you to snoop around the home of fictional architect Norman Swann, piecing together his life and personality from choreographed details scattered throughout a grand but decaying apartment. A script - available for free within the exhibition - adds narrative flesh to the bones of rooms and objects, which together form a set for an as-yet-unrealised film. Surely more than one will remember the first exhibition of "The Manhattan Transcripts", "The Park" by Bernard Tschumi in 1978.
The domestic setting will appear like a set for an unrealised play. A script, written by the artists, will be available for visitors as a printed book. Visitors will be able to explore the apartment, sit on the sofa and read the inhabitant’s books and magazines.
The exhibition recontextualized the idea of museum, exhibition, just as it were doing exhibitions for The Manhattan Transcripts in the galleries they were exposed.
Throughout their career the artists have redefined the way in which art is presented and experienced, raising issues around social models and spaces, and prompting a re-thinking of the status quo.
This ambitious exhibition will feature objects from the V&A's collections alongside works by the artists and items sourced from antique markets to create an unexpected encounter for the museum visitor.
Venue.- Victoria and Albert Museum. London. U.K.
Dates.- 1 October 2013 - 2 January 2014
