Francis Alÿs was born in Belgium in 1959. He studied architectural history at the Institute of Architecture in Tournai and engineering in Venice before relocating to Mexico city in 1986 originally arriving as part of a French assistance program after an earthquake. This is where he now lives and works as a practicing artist.
His work mainly involves looking at the cultural and economic conditions of particular places, usually conceived during walks of urban areas. He is widely known for his documentary style projects addressing economic and social injustice in Latin America.
However his drawings on tracing paper is what has influenced my artwork.
