Francis Alÿs' unusual installation for Schaulager I saw last summer was staged in Basel's historic Haus zum Kirschgarten. There, hundreds of collected images of Saint Fabiola infested the architecture of the old town house like a Trojan Horse. These portraits all looked similar at first glance. Yet a closer scrutiny revealed a degree of variation between them. The identity of Saint Fabiola was blurred in the flood of images.
Francis Alÿs at Haus zum Kirschgarten, Basel 2011: