Francis Alÿs
- Introduction
- Francis Alÿs (born 1959, Antwerp) is a Belgian-born, Mexico-based artist. His work emerges in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. After leaving behind his profession as an architect and relocating to Mexico City in 1986. He has created a diverse body of artwork and performance art that explores urban tensions and geopolitics. Employing a broad range of media from painting to performance, his works examine the tension between politics and poetics, individual action and impotence. Alÿs commonly enacts paseos—walks that resist the subjection of common space. Cyclical repetition and mechanics of progression and regression also inform the character of Alÿs’ actions and mythology—Alÿs contrasts geological and technological time through land-based and social practice that examine individual memory and collective mythology. Alÿs frequently engages rumor as a central tool in his practice, disseminating ephemeral, practice-based works through word-of-mouth and storytelling.
- Wikidata
- Q558288
- Introduction
- Belgian artist based in Mexico City works within an interdisciplinary practice encompassing a variety of media and actions. He studied architecture formally.
- Nationalities
- Belgian, Central American, South American
- Gender
- Male
- Roles
- Artist, Conceptual Artist, Multimedia Artist, Painter, Performance Artist, Photographer
- Names
- Francis Alÿs, Francis Alys
- Ulan
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Exhibitions
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Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011
Nov 3, 2019–Mar 1, 2020
MoMA PS1
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Zero Tolerance
Oct 26, 2014–Apr 13, 2015
MoMA PS1
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Stranger than Fiction: Art of Our Time
Feb 1–May 5, 2014
MoMA
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MoMA Media Lounge
Feb 29, 2012–Jul 8, 2013
MoMA
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Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception
May 8–Aug 1, 2011
MoMA
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Francis Alÿs has
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Francis Alÿs Virtues 1992
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Francis Alÿs Untitled 1994
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Francis Alÿs Study for The Last Clown, Déjà-vu 1995
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Francis Alÿs La Malinche (1997)
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Francis Alÿs Stockholm 1997
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Francis Alÿs Maqueta, Rehearsal I (Ensayo I) 1999
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Francis Alÿs Caracoles, Rehearsal I (Ensayo I) 1999
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Francis Alÿs Untitled 2000
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Francis Alÿs Untitled (Boy with Jug) 2000
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Francis Alÿs Perro y Pelota, Rehearsal I (Ensayo I) 2000
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Francis Alÿs La Leçon de Musique 2000
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Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Blake, Tracey Emin, William Kentridge, Gregor Schneider, Various Artists Parkett no. 63 2001
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Francis Alÿs Rehearsal I (Ensayo I) 1999-2001
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Francis Alÿs Untitled 1999-2001
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Francis Alÿs, Rafael Ortega Rehearsal I (Ensayo I) 1999-2001
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Francis Alÿs Untitled 1999-2001
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Francis Alÿs Untitled 1999-2001
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Francis Alÿs Untitled 1999-2001
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