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SPACE AND DESIGN

FLATLANDS · PARIS

PROJECTS

FLATLANDS · PARIS

Nathalie Pozzi


 
 

Flatlands is fictional archive for nearly 200 game boards. Within this theatrical space, two players compete to find the perfect board to please a judge and win the game.

Each round, players play cards from their hand that create changing criteria for the comparison. There are adjective cards and noun cards, which combine to make statements like colorless geometries or nostalgic characters. (Of course, colorless characters or nostalgic geometries are just as possible.) The players argue their case before the judge, who picks the winner.

In Flatlands, the field of play is a cultural space, as players argue over visual aesthetics and social meanings of the colorful game boards. It is also a narrative space with a fable-like quality – two archivists search through a randomly organized collection of objects and then present their case to a judge, whose word is law.


Large-scale physical installation

Collaboration with
Game designer Eric Zimmerman

Exhibition
D-DAYS

Gallery
Musée des Arts décoratifs · Paris

Dates
2nd May · 14th May  2017

Photography
Baptiste Heller


Project acquired by the Centre national des arts plastiques, the French institution under the Ministry of Culture and Communication that manages the collection of the Fonds national d'art contemporain (National Foundation for Contemporary Art).


Originally commissioned by
Babycastles

Venue
New York City · 2010

 
 
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