
Francis Alÿs
Francis Alÿs’s film Reel-Unreel, 2011, is the centerpiece of this exhibition, which for the first time brings together works the artist made in Afghanistan between 2010 and 2014. Playing on the assonance between reel/real and unreel/unreal, the film points out the incongruities between what is filtered in stories created by the western media and the true life conditions in a city such as Kabul, defaced by war, swimming in a messy accumulation of rubble and garbage, with open sewers amid precarious makeshift dwellings. Within this devastated scenario, two children unroll and roll up two reels of