2025/05/01

Ghosts in Shells: Seventeen Gallery Show Explores Gameplay and Identity

In “Many Ghosts, Many Shells,” curator Rebecca Edwards presents a series of gaming experiences at London’s Seventeen gallery that explore identity and selfhood through worlding and simulation. The works by David Blandy and Petra Szemán, John Powell-Jones, and Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley position gameplay as “a radical tool for rethinking action,” Edwards argues, by interrogating power and erasure in digital archives, and uncovering shared imaginaries that transcend cultures and generations.

Metadata: People: , , , , / Organizations: / Locations: / Contributors: / David Blandy & Petra Szeman, Our Ghosts, Our Shells, part 1 (2025)
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$40 USD