Isaac Julien –
Playtime

Editors
Deutsche Bank AG, Palais Populaire, Philipp Bollmann

Authors
Zeigam Azizov, Philipp Bollmann, Anna Herrhausen, Isaac Julien

Design
Neue Gestaltung

Publisher
Kerber Verlag

Format
32.5 x 24.5 cm

Features
134 pages
Hardcover in linen

ISBN
978-3-7356-0913-7

Publication
June 2023

Kaufen

This publication was produced to accompany the exhibition Playtime at PalaisPopulaire, curated by Philipp Bollmann and co-organized with Deutsche Bank AG and Palais Populaire.

In 2013, five years after the profound global banking and financial crisis, Isaac Julien (*1960) presented his film Playtime. In this work, Julien addresses a fundamental question: How can capital be visualized? Through the stories of six protagonists, who are individuals active in the art world and the financial sector, Isaac Julien found narrative images that speak of the global interconnectedness of capital. In them, macroscopic and microscopic perspectives are dialectically linked.

Palais Populaire and Sammlung Wemhöner jointly present Playtime to re-examine this work from today’s perspective – a work that is more relevant than ever, as capital plays a role in all political, social, and societal spheres and influences the lives of almost everyone on this planet.

This publication, graphically developed by Neue Gestaltung, was awarded the Award### .