Francis Alÿs
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Movies
The Green Line
In The Green Line, for which the axiom was ‘sometimes the political is poetic, sometimes the poetic ...
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Railings
This video performance showcases two works by the artist. In the first, he walks through the streets...
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Paradox of Praxis 1
For more than nine hours, Francis Alÿs pushes a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City unti...
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Patriotic Tales
The video shows the artist walking in circles around the flagpole (“Madre Patria”) in Zócalo, Mexico...
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Watercolor
"Mixing water from the Red Sea with water from the Black Sea". Trabzon, Turkey-Aqaba, Jordan, 2010....
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Re-enactment
For this work Alÿs purchased a gun in Mexico City then walked through the city streets with the weap...
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Duett
For the 1999 Venice Biennale, Alÿs created an unofficial performance for the occasion, titled Duett....
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