Francis Alys' paintings are enigmatic, naive, like puzzles of everyday life. And I think the paradox lies in that he uses a very simple iconography to throw us off.
green day's nimrod, anybody? i feel as though i want to type something in the white ellipse. does that coincide with alys' theory of creating a puzzle with the paintings? by puzzle, i mean that we feel we have the obligation to sort out the background pieces and to lock in the final piece. the final piece being the face.
green day's nimrod, anybody? i feel as though i want to type something in the white ellipse. does that coincide with alys' theory of creating a puzzle with the paintings? by puzzle, i mean that we feel we have the obligation to sort out the background pieces and to lock in the final piece. the final piece being the face.
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