ENDS. Football app in development.

ends. — Every neighbourhood has a game.

Behind the estates. Beneath the flyovers. On a stretch of concrete where two jackets become a goal.

Football has a life beyond the stadium. It has its own meeting places, its own characters, its own unwritten rules. You hear it in the music beside the court, see it in the clothes piled behind the goal, and feel it when a stranger trusts you with the next pass.

ends. is being built for that world.

A way to discover the places people play, find your way into the local scene, and carry a little of every encounter with you. Around your own corner or in a city where nobody knows your name.

Every neighbourhood brings something different. A rhythm. A style. A way of playing. Through football, you get to know a place through the people who give it life.

You might arrive alone. Someone calls you over. A pass becomes an understanding; a game becomes an afternoon. Before you leave, someone asks if you’re coming back next week.

Those are the connections ends. is designed to help begin—and keep alive after everyone heads home.

And with every return, your name starts to mean something.

The places you’ve played. The connections you’ve made. The impression you leave behind. Over time, these become part of a player identity that others can discover—a history with depth, a reputation with somewhere to grow.

There’s a particular feeling in seeing your name among other players. Recognising the names above you. Knowing someone else is beginning to recognise yours. Watching your place in that world evolve.

That sense of presence usually belongs to the players we watch. ends. brings it closer to the people we play with.

Your story begins to travel ahead of you. Across courts, beyond your neighbourhood, into a wider picture of the game. Someone you’ve never met may already know your name.

And some names travel further.

Into the spotlight. Towards gatherings you won’t find on a fixture list, and evenings whose location arrives as a quiet invitation.

Where it leads begins with showing up.

I’m building ends. because this culture deserves a place of its own. Somewhere to collect the courts, the faces, the photographs, and the stories that rarely make it beyond the people who were there. Somewhere a player can find both a game and a sense of belonging.

Your backing helps bring that place to life.

Funds raised will support the development and testing of ends., putting it into players’ hands and helping its first communities take shape.

There’s a game happening somewhere, under the lights, just out of sight.

Artist spotlight: Diane Bellier

Imagine

A story, A movie scene, A dream.

There is an aura of insouciance in Diane Bellier’s work, a force of defiance, a curious (but calm) search for languages that condense the discourse she wishes to convey. This is why she uses photography, drawing, painting and video-creation to capture the muses and demons that assist her. Typical elements of the subconscious register, such as imaginary landscapes, dreams, mysticism and becoming, reveal a contemporary artist in a soliloquy in which she allows us to participate.

In this experimental journey, full of exploration and discovery, there is a constant alternation of forces, where seemingly opposite or dichotomous pairs embrace each other in a subtle and organic way. Thus, the figurative and the abstract flirt mischievously, in a visual space where images with references drawn from reality are blurred into patches of color that build areas of contrast and abstract forms.

On the other hand, the flirtation with tradition leads him to parody «classical» works of art, in an act of combined homage and irreverence. Mimicry is relaxed and given free rein, for it is not a matter of imitation, but of (re)interpretation, (re)meaning and appropriation of a motif or referent in order to involve it in his interests of formal exploration. He returns to the great masters of art history, but not to reaffirm them with closed eyes, but to question them from a present with new orientations. Venus is (re)born in Bellier’s brush, while an amorphous Liberty guides a people lost in the shadows.

The chromaticism in the work of this artist has a seductive wildness, a stridency (Fauvist if you will) that confronts complementary colors and traps at a distance. The subjects are multiple: glances at fashion, pop culture; the intimacy of a mantra or an intertwined embrace; the immensity of nature; biblical themes like Genesis; among many others. The known references are then a pretext to capture the attention of the spectator and to conquer him by the particularity of his poetics which, even if it proposes a lot, contains a solid and unique sensitivity.

Text : Dayma Crespo Zaperta

Photo : Lou Sarda

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