2025/07/24

Critic: Refik Anadol’s Algorithmic Approach Fails to Capture Football’s Human Essence

“Surely, Anadol could not have been expected to bottle the essence of live football into a work of art like a fragrance.”
– Critic Valentina Di Liscia, offering a minor concession in a pointed critique of Refik Anadol’s Living Memory: Messi—A Goal in Life (2025), an immersive installation recreating Leo Messi’s favourite goal from his career. Di Liscia argues that some experiences—the roar of the stadium, the tension of live football—resist translation. “Perhaps Anadol’s gravest error was attempting to harness something too real to code, and unlike Messi, he missed the shot.”
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