Untitled

Appropriating images and drawing inspiration from his own biography are two of Danh Vo’s central artistic strategies. The black-and-white image that forms the basis for his 2010 photogravure Untitled is a portrait of Ingar Dragset, one half of the artist duo Elmgreen and Dragset and, like Vo himself, a former partner of Michael Elmgreen. After their separation, Vo appropriated private photos of his ex-partner and turned Ingar Dragset’s portrait into a print without providing a title or any other information on the circumstances under which it had come into existence.