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Playing tennis in a Milan's church

The artist Asad Raza transofrmed the San Paolo Converso church in a tennis pitch

Playing tennis in a Milan's church The artist Asad Raza transofrmed the San Paolo Converso church in a tennis pitch

If you to play tennis in Milan, you can do it with style in an incredible location. The american artist Asad Raza’s bright orange tennis court lets churchgoers play rounds beneath holy relics, at Milan’s Chiesa San Paolo Converso. The piece, named Untitled (Plot for Dialogue), is free for the public to visit, and comes with everything you’d expect from a normal court, including racquets, nets, and even jugs of iced tea and coaches. In place of onlookers, stone statues observe games from the sidelines.

Raza’s work explores how objects, humans, and non-human beings inhabit space through social practices The exhibition is running until 16 December at Converso, an exhibition space hosted in the former church of San Paolo in Milan and the headquarters of CLS Architetti, and is free and open to the public from Thursday to Saturday.