Mémoire de l’Avenir (MDA) / Humanities, Arts and Society (HAS) brought together 10 transdisciplinary artists — from here and elsewhere for the exhibition Terrain de jeu ! which has just closed.
This exhibition questions what games and sport reveal about our societies: power dynamics, competition, inclusion, everyday life, care of the body, and our capacity to live together.
Sport and games offer common ground not as solutions to social tensions, but as spaces in which to test methods, cross divides, and build understanding beyond differences.
Far from anecdotal, playful practices constitute systems governed by shared rules, where strategy, chance, cooperation, and fairness shape interactions.
Like the arts, play is a universal language that crosses cultures and territories, linking the urban and the rural, the individual and the collective, the intimate and the spectacular.
The artists examine contemporary social and political issues, or simply the care of the body and everyday life, through the prism of games and sport sometimes subverting or reinventing the rules, opening new spaces for encounter.
Original concept
AB SAMUEL
– One, Two, Three Viva l’Algérie –
-film- with Mémoire de l’Avenir
The World Cup crosses the globe, creating a paradoxical space one of both sharing and separation.
Its lines connect as much as they divide: neighborhoods, generations, cultures, and social classes.
Sport, far from neutral, reveals a grammar of power.
“The system loves symbolic victories. They’re cheaper than real change.” Naomi Klein
AB SAMUEL | ARCHIBALD APORI | YOHAN BLANCO | HELEN CHOI | ANGELA FECHTER | SOULEYMANE FOFANA | ROBERTO FRANKENBERG | GIOVANNA MAGRI | LAURENT MALLET | BOUBAKARY SIBY | REBECCA VINCENZI
Mémoire de l’Avenir : Terrain de jeu !
July 3 to August 1, 2026
Espace culturel Mémoire de l’Avenir
45-47 rue Ramponeau
75020 Paris
https://www.memoire-a-venir.org/
