LONDON.- At the 2025 edition of Frieze Sculpture, Pace Gallery presents Elmgreen & Dragset’s Life Rings, Fig. 3/2023, a large-scale work that takes a typically singular, reusable, lightweight, and often weathered emergency tool and multiplies it into absurdity.

In this impossible-seeming tower configuration, the rings appear to have mushroomed upward toward the sky. Each ring is connected to the next, forming a structure that resembles a chain-link system.

Elmgreen & Dragset are known for making sculptures that transform everyday or inconspicuous objects in ways that shift their perceived value. Here, the life ring—usually made of basic materials like plastic or foam—is instead rendered in stainless steel, changing its materiality and thereby elevating it to a higher status associated with permanence, art, and architecture. The sculpture, climbing over four meters tall, becomes both a visual anchor and a potential meeting point.

Coinciding with Frieze Sculpture, the artists will also present an immersive installation titled The Audience in collaboration with Prada Mode at Town Hall, the recently restored landmark in King’s Cross, London. On view from October 15 - 19, Prada Mode London will feature talks, conversations, film screenings, performances, and DJ sets to further explore the idea of spectatorship and open up other ways of thinking about how audiences gather, watch, and respond.

At Pace’s Los Angeles gallery, the artists are presenting The Alice in Wonderland Syndrome, their first-ever solo exhibition in the city, on view through October 25. The show follows recent solo presentations at the Musée d’Orsay in Paris and the Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul and coincides with two milestones: the thirtieth anniversary of Elmgreen & Dragset’s artistic collaboration and the twentieth anniversary of their famed Prada Marfa installation, unveiled in Texas in 2005.