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Venice Biennale: Francis Alÿs collects videos of endangered children's games
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Belgian artist Francis Alÿs exhibits videos of games threatened with extinction in the face of growing urbanization and digitization.
© Screenshot - Francis Alÿs
By: Isabelle Chenu Follow
Francis Alÿs is the Belgian artist who represents his country at the Venice Arts Biennial, the most important artistic event in the world, taking place until November.
He undertook to list in video the games that children from all over the world play among themselves in the public space, and this, on all continents.
Disappearing games, due to ever-increasing urbanization and digital technology increasingly present in our lives.
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To go further:
The videos of these children's games are available free of charge on
the artist's website
.
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