Ping-Pong. Correspondence with… Nathalie Reys

Ping-Pong is a project by the M|A|C that proposes a correspondence between artists and students, established through postal mail as a form of play and dialogue. The idea is to send a letter to the school with a proposal that may surprise them, make them reflect, help them discover something new, provoke them… This action activates artistic and educational processes in the classroom, leading the students to send their response or the result of the proposal back to the artist. This continues until the artist visits the school and they finally meet each other.

This year, the artist Nathalie Rey began her game by sending a postcard to the 5th‑grade students of the Montserrat Solà school.

The artist used the character that represents her alter ego, the Green Monkey, to spark debate, conversations, and research, and also to encourage looking at the world with a critical mindset and questioning the society we live in and how we relate to others and to our environment.

The exhibition shows the process of this debate, which has led to conversations about the emotions and fears we all have. Emotions are universal, and fears and insecurities have taken the shape of symbolic monsters, which now occupy room 3 of the M|A|C.