Fútbol is Life

Fútbol is life in every way possible—shared energy, community, collaboration, but also disparity, corruption. 

Fútbol is love. Fútbol is black, white, gay, straight, bi, brown, queer.

Fútbol is death, slavery, bigotry. Fútbol is togetherness and opposition. Fútbol is life.

Every four years, the globe gathers for the World Cup. The event is a perfect metaphor for collaboration and its antithesis. FIFA and Qatar can play host, mired in controversy, but they don’t own the game. The people do. So let’s take it back: transpose it, invert it, and make it our own.

In December, Public Works is celebrating the best parts of the game, transforming our Chicago gallery into a site of global and local community-building. We’re facilitating collaborations from an international cohort of artists, screening select World Cup matches on our giant projection wall (bleachers and all), and gamifying the gallery for players of all ages, offering a fun and safe space for art & soccer enthusiasts to gather and exchange. Fútbol is life. It’s better together.