Funny Games
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Inspired by London’s summer of sport, illustrator Redouane Oumahi, founder of consultancy This is Playtime, has created the Funny Games project, set to be exhibited at London’s Kemistry Gallery.
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The works by the French-born, Sweden-based designer aim to ‘find comical elements among the tension and passion that is so often evident in sport’.
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More sinisterly, Oumahi says the exhibition is also inspired by Funny Games – Michael Haneke’s gruelling 1997 Post-Modernist thriller, in which a family is taken hostage and forced to play sadistic ‘games’.
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As such, works such as Playtime is Over Kids, and the gruesomely-nosed characters in the Playcards take on a darker and rather more sinister edge.
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As well as Oumahi’s works, the exhibition will also feature collaborations with Swedish artist Jacob Dahlgren and textile designer Simon Key Bertman.
Playtime is Over Kids
This is Playtime – Funny Games, is at Kemistry Gallery, 43 Charlotte Road, London EC2, from 25 October-24 November.
