Francis Alysis is one of the artists focuses on everyday practice through various media. He has lived in many countries, and experienced different culture. He applies what he experienced into his work. He always travels. Most of his works are from walking around cities. His work is unforeseen, but the result is always instilling. He has his own view to the world. His works are challenge, but they are not through violent ways, instead, his works are so gentle. His works are like poems, in which he tries to tell things slowly and beautifully. Besides challenging, the uncertainty is another important part in his work.
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Through out his practice, Francis Alÿs consistently directs his distinct poetic and imaginative sensibility toward anthropological and geopolitical concerns centered around observations of, and engagements with, everyday life, which the artist himself has described as "a sort of discursive argument composed of episodes, metaphors, or parables." His multifaceted projects including public actions, installations, video, paintings, and drawings have involved traveling the longest possible route between locations in Mexico and the United States; pushing a melting block of ice through city streets; commissioning sign painters to copy his paintings; filming his efforts to enter the center of a tornado; carrying a leaking can of paint along the contested Israel/Palestine border; and equipping hundreds of volunteers to move a colossal sand dune ten centimeters.
弗朗西斯是一位强迫性流浪者。利用纪实影片、照片、录像、绘画和行为，他编绘了一组富有个人风格的反映了社会和经济环境特殊的纪录。
对日常生活拥有近距离观察，弗朗西斯对于短暂和偶发事件擦身而过的观点是：“我花了很多时间在城市的各个角落溜达...很多作品的概念就在步行的时候蹦出来。作为一名艺术家，我的身份就等同于要在移动的环境中安置自己的。我的作品是成功的纪录和指南。语言的创造和城市的创造在是并肩的，我的每一个创造是我另一个正在创造中故事的碎片，是我试图绘制的城市地图。”