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Works of art that are playing with you rather than you playing with them.

Patrick Bérubé, Demi-Mesure, 2005

Patrick Bérubé moved the floor of another exhibition room upwards to install the most frustrating trampoline i've ever seen. The ceiling is so low you have to bend in half if you want to get near the trampoline. Forget about jumping on it.

Jacob Dahlgren, I, the world, things, life, 2007

Jacob Dahlgren's I, The World, Things, Life fills a whole wall with dartboards. Visitors are invited to help themselves with the red darts on offer in nearby cardboard boxes and play a game of darts. Except that the exercise is absurd. How do you check if you've scored? Which red dart is your dart? Seen from afar, the wall dissolves into a big abstract painting that keeps changing as more people come inside the gallery and throw darts.

Letizia Romanini, Untitled, 2009

The artworks selected for Ceci n'est pas un Casino amplify the vexation experienced by visitors when enter the space thinking that they will enjoy games of chance. The exhibition is tantalizing, baffling, frustrating but it's also light, fun and sometimes thought-provoking. Just what games should be!

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Prestige forest:

"colour of light depends on sun's rays at night."

Matrix of 5000 lights.

Villanurbs:

NY aquarium:

Francis Alys

A STORY OF DECEPTION.

A man pushes a massive block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melts to nothing.

Francis Alÿs is a Belgian contemporary artist living in Mexico City. Above are stills from the short movie Paradox of Praxis 1, where Alÿs pushes a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City until it melts; serving as a way to mark time and measure existence.

milan exhibtion

This is an impression from the Dutch Invertuals exhibition in Milan that took place during the Salone del Mobile. An interesting bunch of designers somehow felt the urge to work together and present their stuff to a worldwide audience.