Installation view of the exhibition Francis Alÿs: When Faith Moves Mountains (2002). Two Decades Later at the Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), located in Lima, Peru, dated 2022.

Installation view, Francis Alÿs: When Faith Moves Mountains (2002). Two Decades Later, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru, 2022

Installation view, Francis Alÿs: When Faith Moves Mountains (2002). Two Decades Later, Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru, 2022

 

Francis Alÿs: Two Decades Later

Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI), Lima, Peru

January 26–June 2, 2024

The Museo de Arte de Lima (MALI) presents Francis Alÿs: When Faith Moves Mountains (2002). Two Decades Later, an exhibition marking the 20th anniversary of the iconic work's original debut.

Faith Moves Mountains was carried out in April 2002 for the Ibero-American Biennial of Lima as an event of political motivation and poetic expression, a monumental action conceived as an absurd project and executed by the power of collective enthusiasm. The exhibition brings together a diverse range of archival materials such as documents, sketches, paintings, photographs, videos, and texts that collectively build the narrative of this work, which lasted only a few hours but has become part of contemporary art mythology.

The exhibition was curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina.

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