Francis Alÿs
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- 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 formal training as an architect and relocating to Mexico City, he has created a diverse body of artwork and performance art that explores urbanity, spatial justice, and land-based poetics. 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. Alys reconfigures time to the speed of a stroll, making reference to the figure of the flâneur, originating from the work of Charles Baudelaire and developed by Walter Benjamin. Cyclical repetition and return also inform the character of Alÿs’ movements 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 theme 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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Theater of Operations: The Gulf Wars 1991–2011
Through March 1, 2020
MoMA PS1
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Zero Tolerance
October 26, 2014–
April 13, 2015 MoMA PS1
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Stranger than Fiction: Art of Our Time
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May 5, 2014 MoMA
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MoMA Media Lounge
February 29, 2012–
July 8, 2013 MoMA
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Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception
May 8–
August 1, 2011 MoMA
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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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Various Artists, Francis Alÿs, Jeremy Blake, Tracey Emin, William Kentridge, Gregor Schneider 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 Re-enactments 2001
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Francis Alÿs Untitled (series for The Modern Procession, June 23, 2002, New York City) 2002
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Francis Alÿs The Modern Procession 2002
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Francis Alÿs Untitled (Man Looking at His Hands) 2002
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Francis Alÿs When Faith Moves Mountains 2002
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Francis Alÿs Untitled 2002
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Francis Alÿs Subida (Going up), When Faith Moves Mountains 2002
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