Untitled
Francis Alÿs
Belgian, born 1959
2002
An offset-printed poster by Francis Alÿs that compresses his 2002 participatory project 'Cuando la fe mueve montañas' into a pale photographic view of a Peruvian hill, meant to document and announce a collective, symbolic intervention at the III Bienal de Lima.
You notice a hushed, expansive sky above a low, undulating ridge rendered with faint chromatic doubling and visible fold creases, while a large, airy title floats across the top like a gentle proclamation.
By turning a site-specific, participatory action into a printed image, the work shows how Alÿs translates modest, poetic gestures into reproducible media to probe collective agency, political imagination, and the circulation of public art.
Medium
Offset print on paper
Dimensions
17 5/8 x 24 1/4" (44.8 x 61.6 cm)
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Credit
Gift of The Speyer Family Foundation, Kathy and Richard S. Fuld, Jr., Marie-Josée and Henry R. Kravis, Patricia Phelps de Cisneros, Anna Marie and Robert F. Shapiro, The Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, and Committee on Media Funds
Accession
208.2007.20
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