The artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset are currently participating in the group exhibition OH! MY CITY held at PARADISE ART SPACE in Incheon. The exhibition, which presents the works of five international contemporary artists including Anibal Catalan and Chiharu Shiota, explores the multilateral meanings of cities, extending beyond their physical boundaries. Known for their signature humor and poignant sarcasm against social clichés and cultural structures pervasive in everyday life, Elmgreen & Dragset present three works that reinterpret conventional cityscapes. 

Installed within Paradise Walk, the hallway that connects PARADISE ART SPACE to Paradise City, is City in the Sky (2019)—a large-scale installation that depicts a scaled model of an imaginary city, flipped upside down. This marks the first time this work has been showcased in Korea. Inspired by financial centers being built in megacities such as Hong Kong, Shanghai, and London, City in the Sky portrays the complex layers and aspirations that impact the cityscape as the competition among global metropolises intensifies. The artists expanded on this idea, creating a kaleidoscopic overview of a fictional urban landscape in which illuminated skyscrapers are rendered as post-architectural archetypes, prompting viewers to imagine their own ideal city. The Observer (Kappa) (2019), installed in PARADISE ART SPACE, displays a lone figure deep in thought, casually leaning over the railing of a balcony. The balcony transgresses boundaries,  being at once private and public, and the work represents a portrait of an individual observing the myriad features of a city. Facing The Observer (Kappa) is a new variation of Powerless Structures, Fig. 429 (2012), of which the original version was first introduced at the Echigo-Tsumari Satoyama Museum of Contemporary Art KINARE in 2013. The exhibition, which provides an opportunity to experience the everyday city from an artistic perspective, runs through October 4, 2020.