Philippe Parreno, Marco Perego and Zoe Saldaña
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About the artwork
Philippe Parreno and Marco Perego collaborate on a video game project titled Forget the Ball and Keep Playing inviting guest performers worldwide to sketch floor plans of the homes and neighbourhoods where they grew up. These sketches form a collective, fragmented archive from which seemingly incoherent words and narratives emerge. Video game players navigate these spaces through unexpected sequences of words, experiencing them as echoes of previously played worlds.
As the project grows, contributions from different guests around the world will enrich this fragmented archive, enabling gamers to journey through layers of memory and imagination. In Manchester, Parreno and Perego feature the personal geography of Zoe Saldaña.
About the collaborators
Marco Perego
Marco Perego has a profound interest in the search for new kinds of transformation and transcendence. Perego’s work has been shown internationally at the 60th Venice as part of the Vatican Pavilion; the Museum of Art in Bologna, the National Archeology Museum in Florence, the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, and the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Perego’s works are present in the public collections of the Jumex Museum in Mexico City, the Rennie Museum in Vancouver, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, and the Pinault Collection in Paris. Perego recently completed writing and directing his first feature film, The Absence of Eden, produced by Martin Scorsese. The Academy Library Museum acquired the screenplay of the film, which will be part of the permanent collection of the museum.
Philippe Parreno
Philippe Parreno is a French artist who rose to prominence in the 1990s, earning critical acclaim for his work that spans a diversity of media, including film, sculpture, drawing, and text. Parreno radically redefined the exhibition experience by taking it as a medium, placing its construction at the heart of his process. Exploring the possibilities of the exhibition as a coherent “object” rather than as a collection of individual works, it becomes a veritable open space, a format that differs on each occasion, and a frame for things to appear and disappear. He has exhibited at numerous institutions internationally including Tate Modern (London), The Serpentine Gallery (London), Palais de Tokyo (Paris), Museo Prado (Madrid) and MoMA (New York).
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