
Francis Alÿs – Paradox of Praxis 1 (Sometimes Making Something Leads to Nothing)
The theme of transformation, poetic by definition but also a little subversive, is central to Alÿs work. There is a balance between absence and presence… between the idea and the object… between what isn’t there as well as what is; the space between things in which transformation occurs.
All his actions are made as a response to a context and a moment, therefore he never re-enacts them elsewhere.