
Looking Up (Plaza de Santo Domingo, Mexico D.F., Agosto 18, 2001)
2001
In this video and photography work, Francis Alÿs documents a deceptively simple gesture: people in Mexico City's Plaza de Santo Domingo looking upward at the sky. By combining video projection with still photographs, Alÿs transforms an everyday, collective moment of looking into a meditation on shared experience and the possibility of community in urban space. The work's serialized photographs and looped video emphasize the meditative, almost ritualistic quality of this synchronized act of attention.
- Medium
- single screen video projection, master betacam, DVD and 18 retouched colour photographs
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- Auction House · Phillips
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April 10, 2025
Lot 33
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