
Francis Alÿs
A worn leather shoe, a wooden shoehorn, and a leather football are brought together with acrylic in a quietly enigmatic assemblage that blurs the boundary between everyday object and artistic gesture. Alÿs transforms these humble, tactile items into a meditation on labor, play, and the poetic potential of ordinary life. The work carries the understated wit and street-level sensibility characteristic of the artist's broader practice.
- Medium
- acrylic, leather shoe, wooden shoehorn, leather football
- Spotted At
- Auction House · Phillips
🔨 Auction Lot
Latin America
May 23, 2013
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