Francis Alÿs
Tate Modern 15 June – 5 September 2010
Explore:
- A Story of Deception (Room 1)
- The Loop (Room 2)
- Mexico City (Rooms 3 and 4)
- Re-enactments (Room 5)
- Children's Games (Room 6)
- Rehearsal (Rooms 6 and 7)
- When Faith Moves Mountains (Room 8)
- Silencio (Room 9)
- The Green Line (Room 11)
- Paintings (Rooms 12 and 13)
- Tornado (Rooms 14 and 15)
- Song for Lupita (Room 16)
Re-enactments (Room 5)
Alÿs has always taken an interest in the ways in which performances are repeated and re-staged. For Re-enactments 2000 he walked into a gun shop, bought a weapon, and carried it very visibly until he was arrested. The next day, somewhat implausibly, he persuaded the police to take part in a reconstruction of the exact same events. The work exposes the fallacious idea that any performance can be known to us with pure immediacy and without mediation, yet it also points to the violence in Mexico City in a way that Alÿs has sometimes felt was too sensational.
