Salam tristesse2020
by Francis Alÿs
Catalogue of the exhibition curated by Taiyana Pimentel, director of the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo (MARCO) in Monterrey, Mexico compriosing a sample of the work that Francis Alÿs (Belgium, 1959, lives and works in Mexico City) developed between the years 2016 and 2020 as a artist in the war in Irak. In this exhibition, Alÿs explores the social collapse, meaninglessness and drama caused by war, while, with great lucidity about his own work, questioning the role and prerogatives of the artist documenting this war confrontation. Indeed, in Alÿs' work the question of what to do in the face of injustice and the pain of others constantly looms. In 2018, two years after the signing of the Peace Agreement in Colombia, sculptor Doris Salcedo and photographer Juan Fernando Castro recorded the...