playground!

Memory of the Future (MDA) / Humanities, Arts and Society (HAS)
will bring together 10 transdisciplinary artists — from here and elsewhere.

Games and sports as common languages,
foundations of respectful coexistence.

As the 2026 World Cup brings the world together,
this exhibition explores what play and sport reveal about our societies:
power dynamics, competition, inclusion, and the ability to live together.

Sport and play offer a common ground —
not as solutions to social tensions,
but as spaces where modes of action can be experimented with,
where the divides between urban and rural areas can be overcome,
and where understanding is built beyond differences.

Far from being anecdotal,
playful practices constitute systems governed by shared rules,
where strategy, chance, cooperation, and fairness shape interactions.

Present since the origin of human societies,
play, like the arts, is a universal language of creative expression
that transcends cultures and territories,
transcends linguistic and cultural boundaries,
and connects the urban and the rural,
the individual and the collective,
the intimate and the spectacular.

Send us strong artistic proposals capable of questioning
contemporary social, political, and media issues
through the lens of play and sport —
by bending or reinventing the rules,
by replaying hierarchies,
and by opening up new areas of encounter.

Up to you!