{"id":16178,"date":"2014-07-03T16:35:39","date_gmt":"2014-07-03T16:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/gallowhill-francis-alys-when-faith-moves\/"},"modified":"2018-12-05T18:55:58","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T01:55:58","slug":"gallowhill-francis-alys-when-faith-moves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/gallowhill-francis-alys-when-faith-moves\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-16178 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon portrait'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/gallowhill-francis-alys-when-faith-moves\/attachment\/16179\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mr4xbvOSxN1qadx22o1_1280-100x100.png\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/gallowhill.tumblr.com\/post\/57564846100\/francis-alys-when-faith-moves-mountains-2002\">gallowhill<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.francisalys.com\/\">Francis Al\u00ffs<\/a> &#8211; When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>Al\u00ffs visited Lima in 2000 just before the collapse of the Fujimori government and found \u2018a desperate situation that called for an \u201cepic response\u201d, at once futile and heroic, absurd and urgent.\u2019 He returned in 2002 to organise When Faith Moves Mountains, persuading 500 Peruvian students to walk in a line up a sand dune on the outskirts of the city, digging as they went, thus displacing the dune by a few centimetres. The action \u2013 Al\u00ffs\u2019s most visually spectacular to that date \u2013 was filmed from various positions and the images were subsequently used on postcards, whilst the artist also encouraged the spread of news of the work through rumour and myth.<\/em> \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tate.org.uk\/whats-on\/tate-modern\/exhibition\/francis-alys\/francis-alys-story-deception-room-guide\/francis-alys-3\">TATE<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gallowhill: Francis Al\u00ffs &#8211; When Faith Moves Mountains, 2002 Al\u00ffs visited Lima in 2000 just before the collapse of the Fujimori government and found \u2018a desperate situation that called for an \u201cepic response\u201d, at once futile and heroic, absurd and urgent.\u2019 He returned in 2002 to organise When Faith Moves Mountains, persuading 500 Peruvian students [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-4cW","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16178"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16180,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16178\/revisions\/16180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}