Francis Alÿs: When Faith Moves Mountains (2002). Two Decades Later. MALI - Museo de Arte de Lima

MALI, Museo de Arte, Lima, presents Francis Alÿs: When Faith Moves Mountains (2002). Two decades later. The exhibition, curated by Cuauhtémoc Medina, delves into the documentation left by the action carried out in Peru on April 11, 2002, when hundreds of people joined efforts to move a dune from its original location. When Faith Moves Mountains was a project done in collaboration with Rafael Ortega and Cuauhtémoc Medina, who also curated it at that time.
The exhibition delves into the importance of the work as a reference point for the social turn of 21st-century art and the memory of contemporary art in Peru.
Francis Alÿs (1959, Belgium, lives and works in Mexico City) trained as an architect and urban planner; he moved to Mexico in 1986 to work with local non-governmental organizations. In 1990, he started his practice in the visual arts, from painting and drawing to video and photography. Although his studio is located in Mexico City, over the past 20 years, Alÿs has carried out numerous projects in collaboration with local communities worldwide.
Watch the video documentation of When Faith Moves Mountains: https://francisalys.com/when-faith-moves-mountains/