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Art and play have a long and friendly relationship. The surrealists loved to play games; the French novelist Georges Perec wrote his novel A Void entirely without the letter E. Games appeal to me as an artist. I’m an experimenter, I like to try things. 

I grew up in the suburbs of Brussels in a little house with a garden. I spent my days roaming around,…