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Details
- Date
- 2001
- Media category
- Time-based art
- Materials used
- eighty 35mm slides, colour, carousel projector
- Edition
- 2/4 [edition of 4 + 2AP & 1 exhibition copy]
- Dimensions
- duration: 00:00:02 sec per slide; display dimensions variable
- Signature & date
Signed l.l. certificate of authenticity, blue fibre-tipped pen "Francis Alÿs". Not dated.
- Credit
- John Kaldor Family Collection at the Art Gallery of New South Wales
- Location
- Not on display
- Accession number
- L2011.24
- Copyright
- © Francis Alÿs. Courtesy Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich
- Artist information
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Francis Alÿs
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About
Francis Alÿs’ idiosyncratic work resists classification. Encompassing lists, plans, and drawings, performances (including public parades and solitary walks) and collections of objects sourced from flea markets, his work is inclusive and plural and is often inspired by and located in the streets of Mexico City, where the artist lives and works.
‘Sleepers II’ is formed out of the colourful ecology of these streets documenting people and dogs asleep on streets, benches and bus stops. While the work could easily lend itself to social commentary the artist’s celebratory approach to his subject undermines such an interpretation. Embracing the disorder and openness of Mexico City, Alÿs has commented that: "'Sleepers' records the way dreaming might have a role in a possible rethinking of our conviviality."
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Audio
Sleepers II - Francis Alÿs 3:35
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Exhibition history
Shown in 3 exhibitions
Journey to now: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, 18 Apr 2003–06 Jul 2003
21st century: art in the first decade, Queensland Art Gallery/Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 18 Dec 2010–26 Apr 2011
The Public Body .02, Artspace, Woolloomooloo, 27 Jul 2017–02 Oct 2017
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Bibliography
Referenced in 2 publications
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Adam Free, Journey to now: John Kaldor art projects and collection, Adelaide, 2003, 60.
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Wayne Tunnicliffe (Editor), John Kaldor family collection: Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, 2011, 153, 170, 171 (colour illus.), 180-181 (colour illus.).
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