Francis Alys Quotes

I am interested in seeing how a certain situation can develop with potential accidents. First, I am inspired by the acts of potential collaborators. It tends to be an action they have already done in a different context. I am very clear about the rules of the game, but once it’s launched, I don’t intervene at all.

– Francis Alys

What I can’t tell with a photo I will tell with a painting, and what I can’t tell with a painting I will tell with a video or text sometimes, et cetera.

– Francis Alys

In the eye of the tornado, there’s no more high and low, no floor and sky.

– Francis Alys

Formulating the proposal is about 80% of the actual time of the process. In the end, the time spent filming, editing and postproduction is a very small proportion of the total time you spend in the production of the film.

– Francis Alys

Can that make any sense – a Belgian artist living in Mexico and working in Afghanistan?

– Francis Alys

I have no problem twisting the facts if it’s the only way I can be true to the moment.

– Francis Alys

I am always fascinated by the way kids create their own world. That is something I am very attentive to anywhere I go.

– Francis Alys

We’ve lost control of this planet somewhere. There’s an echo in that kind of tornado situation, where you’re powerless facing those phenomena.

– Francis Alys