Descripción de la Exposición
Monopoly, my childhood star game, was created by Elizabeth Maggie at the
beginning of the XX Century in the United States, and soon after became
worldwide popular in a great quantity of different versions.
As its name suggests, the objective is creating a monopoly by owning the whole
of the properties that appear on the board. Players move their own game
tokens by turns, depending on dice scoring, and fall in pieces of land that they
can buy and construct or, in case they already have an owner, paying him for
the simple fact of passing through.
From the beginning, I found a great similarity with the present situation in the
world.
Using this game as a pattern, I created Barcepoly, a new version of its
Barcelona edition, replacing the correspondent squares by photographs of the
different places that appear in the game, with the intention of making a portrait
of the city that reflected how changes that it’s experimenting day-to-day coexist
with formerly remnants.
This work was the winner of the Young curators award at Photolux Festival that
took place in Lucca in December 2017, where it had been exhibited as an
artistic installation. That was an excellent opportunity for the project to be seen
by a lot of people, including Mindaugas Kavaliuskas, the Kaunas Photo Festival
director, who believed in it and thought it could be carried out again in Kaunas.
And this was the starting point of Kaunopoly. I was invited by him to an artistic
residence in order to create a Kaunas version of the project.
It has been a huge challenge for me because, unlike Barcelona where I’ve been
living since I was a child, I didn’t know Kaunas nor another Lithuanian city
before, so I’ve had to make a deep research before and after the eleven days
residence in order to seek all the information I needed.
The final version of the project has the Kaunopoly game format.
Exposición. 19 nov de 2024 - 02 mar de 2025 / Museo Nacional del Prado / Madrid, España
Formación. 23 nov de 2024 - 29 nov de 2024 / Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía (MNCARS) / Madrid, España
