Francis Alÿs
photo : Mahtab Hussain / National Portrait Gallery, Londres, permission | courtesy Francis AlÿsFrancis Alÿs, Fabiola, vue d'installation | installation view, National Portrait Gallery, Londres, 2009. photos : Mahtab Hussain / National Portrait Gallery, Londres, permission | courtesy Francis Alÿs
Fabiola is an installation of over 300 portraits of a fourth-century Christian saint collected by the artist from flea markets and antique shops throughout Europe and the Americas. These seemingly identical portraits, including paintings, embroideries and miniatures are all copies of a lost original of Fabiola by the French nineteenth-century painter, Jean-Jacques Henner.
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