Francis Alÿs

The studio of Francis Alÿs, Plaza Loreto, Mexico City, Mexico.

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The artist’s studio is in a three-storey townhouse built in 1736, and it still feels like a family home. Babouche, a French bulldog, greets guests by licking their toes. Staff meetings take place in the kitchen over a hot meal served at 2pm by Mercedes, the cook. The bedrooms are now workshops, editing suites and painting studios, but remain full of character, with blue, turquoise and terra cotta walls and vintage furniture from the local street market. Windows at the front look out on the Loreto Church, whose steeple makes the Leaning Tower of Pisa look serenely upright.
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A range of other artisans work with Mr Alÿs, some of whom have their own workshops within his studio. They include Juan Garcia, a sign painter and portraitist, and Angel Toxqui, a skilled sculptor and restorer of colonial art. The studio functions in Spanish, but a recent visit finds two French speakers hard at work editing a video set on both sides of the Straits of Gibraltar, with the working title, “Don't Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River”.
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Francis Alÿs: Albert’s way, 2014.

"For 7 days from 9AM to 6PM Francis Alÿs will walk in his studio a distance equivalent to that of the Camino Ingles, the route walked by the pilgrims from the port of Ferrol on the Atlantic Coast to the holy city of Santiago de Compostela."


Francis Alÿs: Albert’s way, 2014. (bron: Francis Alÿs/YouTube)

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