Mark Godfrey, in his opening
essay for Francis Alÿs: A Story of Deception, a major survey that opened
at Tate Modern in London and closed
at The Museum of Modern Art in New York in 2011, writes, «What makes Francis Alÿs's practice one of the most compelling in recent art is that he manages to find poetic and imaginative ways to address the
urgent political and economic crises of contemporary life.»