Fabiola

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: