Set of 4 Mind Games Button Badges

A set of four badges produced exclusively for the exhibition Madelon Vriesendorp: Mind Games at Sir John Soane's Museum. One badge features the exhibition logo while the remaining three each feature a different figure from celebrated Mind Game series, the 3D version of which is included in the exhibition. In this interactive and deeply playful piece - part board game, part psychoanalytic diagnostic tool - observers are invited to engage with a series of familiar yet mysterious elements in order to prompt self-enquiry and revelation. Each element or figure is ascribed with a particular set of characteristics: the dice is "both passion and fate", the woman is both mother and witch", the snake is "both darkness and wisdom." Play your own personal Mind Game by wearing your badges in combination or alone to communicate (or conceal) how you feel... Recognised as one of the most significant forces in modern architecture through her work with Dutch studio OMA (which she co-founded with architect Rem Koolhaas in the 1970s) and the most recent recipient of the Soane Medal, artist, artist and collector Madelon Vriesendorp is something of a cult figure. Her uniquely surreal and subversive perspective has proved profoundly influential over five decades of active engagement with the worlds of art and architecture; of her work Vriesendorp simply says, "I make things that make me laugh." Badges: 3cm diameter. Made in the UK.