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Edited by Ingvild Goetz, Karsten Lockemann, Stephan Urbaschek. Text by Magali Arriola, Karsten Lockemann, Stephan Urbaschek, Katharina Vossenkuhl.

This is an illustrated survey of Francis Alys's entire career. It includes interviews and essays by leading international writers. It also presents descriptions of Alys's work by the man himself, as well as responses from a wide range of critics and commentators."

Mexico City-based artist Francis Alÿs has assembled a group of paintings depicting Saint Fabiola, a 4th-century saint who gave up all earthly possessions and devoted herself the practice of Christian asceticism. This collection of Fabiola portraits is the focus of this intriguing book.

"Based on a multimedia installation by Francis Alys, The Last Clown, tells the story of an unplanned meeting between a stroller and dog. While exploring randomness, Francis Alys reflects on the role of laughter and trickery in the creative process as well as on the multiple territories occupied by the artist. His work is at once enigmatic and ironic, grave and light. By way of the several forms in the artistic process, he also explores the role of the artist, and looks at the parameters that could define an artistic practice of today. Essay by Michele Theriault."

"This small volume is a record of a unique series that has been described as a storyboard or archive of Alys's oeuvre, polyptych of 111 paintings called le temps du sommeil. The intriguing images are paired with the words, or instructions, behind his past and future performances. As such this artist's book is an essential key to understanding the imagination of one of the most original and poetic artists of our times, someone whose walks, fables and video projections re-invent urban myths and look at the never-ending imposition of the ideologies of modernity." -- publisher.

DVD. The videorecording focuses on the theme of rehearsal, which is so characteristic of Alÿs' work.