Francis Alÿs

Francis Alÿs

Francis ALYS (1959, Belgium) relocated to Mexico City where he has lived and worked for the past 15 years. His practice embraces multiple media, from painting and drawing to video and photography. His work has been shown in MoMA in New York and the Tate Modern. Although based in Mexico City, he has done numerous projects over the last 20 years in collaboration with local communities around the world, from South America to North Africa and the Middle East. He has been working on several projects in Iraq since 2016, including the feature film Sandlines (2019), filmed in collaboration with the children of a small mountain village in the Nineveh province.

Filmography

(selection) Zocalo (2001), El Gringo (2004), Nightwatch (2006), Silence of Ani (2016), Sandlines (2019)

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