Francis Alÿs

Financial Times“The work is visually riveting...” Literally and metaphorically, Alÿs has range. His materials encompass painting, drawing, installation, slide projection and film; his imagination strays effortlessly from poetry to politics; physically, he crosses continents while proclaiming...

Time Out“This funny, touching, beautifully-paced show...” In revealing the rules that bind us and the lines that divide us, Alys comes across as a mixture of poet and politician, part prankster, part messianic figure...

this is london“A metaphor for our search for utopia...” He can shift from comedy to poetry and political commentary, sometimes within a single work. But as this survey shows, over 20 years he has produced a consistently convincing and absorbing body of work...

The Telegraph“Tate Modern's finest show to date by a living artist...” An apt introduction to an elusive artist who uses gentle wit and inexhaustible invention to make work that is at once sad, serious and almost impossible to pin down...

The Independent“Exploring the crossovers between poetics and politics... ” The never-reachable moment, a continual glimmer of hope, a pointless struggle – these are the motifs of this brilliant, yet slippery, exhibition...

Guardian“As gripping as it is terrifying...” Tate Modern's exhibition is a delight: thought-provoking, funny and full of pathos, as well as danger. I have seen other survey shows of his work, but none as good as this...

The Times“Tantalising magic and certifiable madness...” A camera pursues an elusive mirage that dances endlessly before it along the steadily unrolling tarmac of a straight desert road. A Story of Deception is the mesmeric art work from which Tate Modern’s latest exhibition takes its name...

The Scotsman“Not yet reviewed”

Art Review“Not yet reviewed”

The Observer“Not yet reviewed”