Opening: Saturday July 5th, 2 p.m.
Identify objectives, formulate strategies, make use of humor, imagination, and creativity; be able to choose a direction, as well as to become disoriented and reoriented, to assume roles, to identify with (or not); to appeal to the senses, to performativity; to be willing to follow the rules (or not), to think, reconsider, assemble, disassemble, and rebuild. To surrender oneself to shaping varied, alternative, novel, perhaps unexpected realities.
These are some of the necessary attitudes for playing… including doing so with others and being an active participant… Aesthetic experience demands something similar: a co-player (Hans Gadamer), someone capable of experiencing meanings and interpretations. The demands of life are (almost) the same—the difference lies in what is “at stake,” what is being risked…
The concept of “play” and its analogy with “life” are at the core of this exhibition. Some literary enrich the theme, such as the novel Hopscotch by Julio Cortázar, who, under the name of an old game, proposes a singular journey through which he introduces a new logic into his novel—and, with it, defines a different kind of reader.
In this exhibition, as in hopscotch (both the novel and the game), each person will build their own path, selecting their itinerary by playing with the selected artists, by getting involved and accepting the challenge each work offers. These choices will shape one’s perception and personal “adventure” — the game — marking, as happens in life, what is unique to each individual, but also the encounter with the other.
Image: Pierre Ardouvin, La roue de la fortune, 2013 © Didier Robcis