Whether discreet or dramatic, this duo’s temporary installations have always been exercises in sleight-of-hand that transform urban space into an elastic, flexible structure. With a piece in which a white car towing a trailer emerges from a long imaginary journey to the center of the earth out of the floor of the central octagon in Galleria Vittorio Emanuele, Michael Elmgreen & Ingar Dragset make a unique incursion into the daily life of Milan and its history, reinterpreting one of the city’s iconic landmarks.
