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As Long as I'm Walking

Francis Alÿs - As Long as I\'m Walking
Reference monograph, centered on some of the Belgian-born Mexican-based artist's key motifs and features: his 30-year groundbreaking video practice; the importance of strolling and walking for his artistic method; his interest in children's games which he has filmed in various countries since 1999.
Also available in English edition.
Francis Alÿs was born in Belgium in 1959 and trained as an architect before re-locating to Mexico City in 1986, where he has been based ever since. He is best known for his actions which he documents in various ways. Some just involve him walking through the city; other actions are epic events set in dramatic landscapes involving hundreds of participants. Alÿs also works with painting, animation and drawing, and many of the images he creates have a dreamlike surreal quality. His actions are frequently humorous, often transient, and can sometimes seem absurd, but they are always concise and carefully planned. For a long time Alÿs has been interested in spreading news about his work through unconventional means such as rumour, so audiences can interpret his projects in unpredictable ways without seeing images of them. All these poetic qualities lead to his idiosyncratic way of approaching questions to do with urbanism, economics, migration, and borders. Throughout his career he has particularly investigated the processes of modernisation in Mexico and in Latin America.
Edited by Nicole Schweizer.
Texts by Judith Rodenbeck, Julia Bryan-Wilson, Luis Pérez-Oramas, Nicole Schweizer.
 
published in November 2021
French edition
23,7 x 28,6 cm (softcover)
160 pages (120 color ill.)
 
40.00
 
ISBN : 978-3-03764-579-6
EAN : 9783037645796
 
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