A look at the Mexico City-based artist's lyrical expansions of art into life; The work of Francis Alÿs (b.1959) blurs the boundaries between the artist and the subject; This is the first comprehensive monograph on the artist's diverse body of work; He employs a range of media - including painting, video, and other more unorthodox materials - in innovative takes on observation, participation and performance; Alÿs's work stems from his interest in the powers that shape urban existence, as well as the innovative schemes that ordinary individuals devise to subvert them.