PLAYFUL CITY:
OCTAVI SERRA (ES)
installation programme
PLAYFUL CITY / August 13-17
8 installations / locations on map
With the theme "Playful City", the 2025 festival invites you to discover the playful side of the urban environment. Play isn’t only for children – it’s a vital part of adult life too, nourishing our bodies, minds, and human relationships. Play in urban space brings freshness to routine, encourages spontaneous encounters, and sparks creativity. Eight artists and collectives from Estonia and beyond will create installations inspired by the theme "Playful City", spread throughout the town.
photo: private collection
Octavi Serra (ES)
ADULT PLAYGROUND
Location: behind Anne 61
August 13, 15.00-20.00
August 14-17, 12.00-20.00
An intervention in a children’s playground that subverts its elements and reinterprets them from an adult perspective. Swings with office chairs, seesaw benches and other equipment mainly used in goal-oriented contexts are used here as elements of the playground. Functional but uncomfortable pieces – familiar yet strange. The project plays with the tension between play and productivity, childhood and seriousness, inviting us to rethink how we use public space when we’re no longer kids, but still need to play.
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Octavi Serra (b. 1990) is a Spanish visual artist and designer whose work focuses on the tensions of modern society, often through irony and minimal interventions in public space. With a background in design and photography, his installations, sculptures and conceptual projects have been exhibited internationally, addressing themes such as control, consumerism and the absurdity of everyday life.
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The project is supported by Spanish Embassy in Tallinn.
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