A remarkable chapter in the now extensive body of work of Francis Alÿs is his impressive series on children?s games played all over the world. This collection of short videos has been steadily growing since 1999. The most recent addition to the series is number 18, featuring children playing knucklebones in Nepal (Children?s Games 18 / Knucklebones, Kathmandu, Nepal, March 2017). In other videos, children kick a bottle up a steep street in Mexico City, play roughly with crickets in Venezuela, fly kites in Afghanistan, and ricochet stones on the sea near Tangier in Morocco.00The exhibition is accompanied by a richly illustrated English-language publication specifically devoted to the Children's Games. With contributions by curator and art historian Cuauhtémoc Medina and David MacDougall, ethnographer and filmmaker. Medina places the Children's Games series in Alÿs' wider oeuvre. In his essay, MacDougall reflects on the limited research on children in ethnographic studies in general and the field of visual anthropology in particular.00Exhibition: Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (19.12.2019 - 08.03.2020).
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