Eden
2023
© The Sims, EA
Courtesy of the artist
DANIELLE UDOGARANYA
Seeing Me, Seeing You, Seeing Us
Danielle Udogaranya, aka Ebonix, is a content creator, gaming expert and 3D artist focuses on groups of still faceless people in order to give them an identity. Only this time rather than photographs, she uses digital avatars. And the context is no longer the real world, but its alternative in virtual space. Essentially, the simulated universe reproduces the same stereotypes as the tangible one, paradoxically distinguishing between the norm and the exception. Ebonix overcomes this distinction and creates avatars that allow those belonging to categories excluded or neglected by the developers to finally be able to recognise themselves in the game. The concepts of activism and inclusiveness not only exist in tangible society, but also in its digital reproductions, where battles are waged that are anything but ephemeral.
Location
Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna / Palazzo Paltroni
Via delle Donzelle, 2
OPENING HOURS
TUESDAY–SUNDAY, 10AM–7PM
BIOGRAPHY
Danielle Udogaranya (London, UK, 1991)—best known as Ebonix—is a content creator, DE&I Games Consultant and 3D artist. Fuelled by a frustration with the lack of diversity in The Sims 4, she decided to take matters into her own hands by teaching herself 3D modelling and creating hair, clothes and accessories that she felt represented her. Her content quickly led her working directly with The Sims on the addition of over 100 skintones and afro hair, ushering in a generational change for new Simmers.
Through her content creation projects create space for black, POC, women, femmes and non-men, Udogaranya has since become an advocate for diversity and representation in gaming and has been featured on Apple, BBC, Vice, The Verge, The Guardian, and many more.
Zeus The Elemental
2023
© The Sims, EA
Courtesy of the artist
Location
Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna / Palazzo Paltroni
Via delle Donzelle, 2
OPENING HOURS
TUESDAY–SUNDAY, 10AM–7PM
This late fifteenth-century palazzo was once owned by the Paltroni family and now belongs to the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna, which holds temporary exhibitions there. The building is also home to an invaluable collection of antique archives: bank archives and family archives, archives belonging to notable figures, and company documents that were donated to or acquired by the Fondazione del Monte di Bologna e Ravenna.