Francis Alÿs: Children’s Games, 11 Feb 2023 — 17 Sep 2023
Exhibitions

Francis Alÿs: Children’s Games

Since 1999, Alÿs has been producing videos that document the games that children play on the street and in courtyards around the world.

Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo – MUAC, Insurgentes Sur 3000, Centro Cultural Universitario, Delegación Coyoacán

Children’s Games is an ongoing archive of urban practices that modernization has been banishing from everyday life as the concept of public space is distorted by the domination of motor vehicles and free time by electronic diversions. The children’s games that Alÿs captures constitute a threatened underground culture that brought together generations and crossed borders, and which are extremely interesting due to their conceptual implications. Their rules, images and references project a variety of concepts on time and the world and suggest an ancient, potent substrate underlying our shared experience, which is another reason why we should be concerned with their imminent disappearance.

A large number of these games, if not the entire series Children’s Games by Francis Alÿs, give off a utopian aura. They express and document forms of self-regulated sociability, in which children establish a diagram of their social relationships on a competitive basis without recurring to legislation or force.

Contacts & Details
OPENING:
wed, fri, sun 10:00 am – 6:00 pm; thu, sat 10:00 am – 8:00 pm

CLOSING DAYS:
mon, tue

T: +52 55 5622 6972
M: informes@muac.unam.mx
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ADDRESS
Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo – MUAC, Insurgentes Sur 3000, Centro Cultural Universitario, Delegación Coyoacán

ESTABLISHED
2008
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