Berlin-based artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset are known for their preoccupation with objects and their settings, and what happens when said objects are recontextualised in the name of art. In this instance, they were commissioned by Fondazione Nicola Trussardi to produce an installation for the grand Milanese shopping mall, Galleria Vittorio Emanuele. They opted to plant a Fiat Uno and accompanying camper trailer in the centre, as if emerging from under the structure’s famous marble floor. The pair described it as a metaphor for global tourism, and a symbol of the precarious nature of today’s world, while many a passersby stopped to ogle at what looked like a baffling accident.
