theartVIEw – Francis Alÿs and Avery Singer at SECESSION from main der painting video Watch Video
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Description: At the main hall of the SECESSION Francis Alÿs shows Le temps du sommeil, a series of 111 small paintings created over the course of two decades. They depict miniature scenes and often look like snapshots of simple gestures and activities that, upon closer inspection, appear to be fairly absurd. The pictures illustrate all that he cannot speak of and the titles of the works are not intended as annotations to the images; they enter into a dialogue with them, shining a light on the complex interr
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