Carsten Höller and Attilio Maranzano: “Memory” Game

This deliberately confounding memory game was released on the occasion of the exhibition Carsten Höller and Attilio Maranzano: Memory at GunGallery, Stockholm, in 2012. The limited edition comprises sixty-two printed cards that each reproduce one of thirty-one photographs by Attilio Maranzano of an Italian amusement park on one side, and another of Maranzano’s photos on the reverse—but manipulated by Carsten Höller to resemble a drunkenly viewed version of the original. To play the game, participants place all of the images by one of the artists face down on a table. They then take turns flipping over two cards at a time in order to find a match. The object is to collect the most matches, but since the “backs” of the cards are not identical, as in the traditional children’s memory game, it’s disorienting and doubly hard to remember where each image has been placed.