The Nature of the Game

Exposición / Wiels - Centre d'Art Contemporain / Av. Van Volxem 354 / Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Bélgica
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Cuándo:
07 sep de 2023 - 07 ene de 2024

Inauguración:
07 sep de 2023

Comisariada por:
Dirk Snauwaert, Hilde Teerlinck

Organizada por:
Wiels - Centre d'Art Contemporain

Artistas participantes:
Francis Alÿs

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Descripción de la Exposición

Following his presentation for the Flemish entry for the Belgian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale in 2022, Alÿs presents this new, more comprehensive version of the exhibition The Nature of the Game, twelve years after the artist's memorable retrospective at WIELS that introduced Belgian audiences to the full scope of his work. Since 1999, during his many travels, Francis Alÿs has documented children playing in public places. At the Venice Biennale, Alÿs presented a series of filmed children games made during the pandemic in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Belgium, Hong Kong, Mexico and Switzerland, in dialogue with a group of his discreet small-format paintings. For the presentation at WIELS, he completes several new films, including children's games he recently saw in Ukraine. He confronts them with the film installation The Silence of Ani (2015), in which children play hide-and-seek in the ruins of an ancient Armenian city on the edge of present-day Turkey. Using bird calls, the children create the illusion that the city is coming back to life.

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