A collection of personal notes from Francis Alÿs’s Bridge project.
Grounded in an awareness of immigration issues, the Bridge project was an experiment in harnessing the imagination to create a bridge between two continents.
This book documents Alÿs’s Bridge/Puente in the Gulf of Mexico, and his new large-scale project at the Strait of Gibraltar, Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River.
The inimitable expressiveness of this artist’s works present ideas and feelings that anyone can share – even when presented with social issues in faraway places – and in so doing he reveals allegories of the societies we live in ourselves.
Alÿs’s latest collection, the first to be published in Japan.

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フランシス・アリスの《橋》のプロジェクトから成る手記。移民問題を背景に、想像力をもって二つの大陸に橋を渡す試みを行った《橋》プロジェクト。メキシコ湾での《Bridge/Puente》、そしてアフリカとヨーロッパを隔てるジブラルタル海峡で行った大規模な新作プロジェクト《川に着く前に橋を渡るな》を収載。遠い地の社会的な問題さえ、誰もが共有できるものとして作品に昇華させる卓越した表現には、私たちの生きる社会の寓意が浮かび上がる。最新作品集、日本初刊行。

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