“In it’s form and title The Modern Procession refers to the long tradition of image processions.”
Francis Ays’s procession of art was led, to the sound of a Latin brass band, by a riderless horse which added a funerary flavour to the event-performance/ an unmounted horse often leads buried cortège a in military tradition.
“To celebrate the moving of The Museum of Modern Art from it’s midtown Manhattan location to MoMA QNS, to welcome MoMAs most sacred icons to the Periphery, come and revere The Modern Procession on it’s journey to Queens on June 23rd. For they bring pleasure, peace and sometimes redemption”…. -Frances Alys, New York City, 2002
Francis Alys, The Modern Procession, Published: 2004, the public art fund
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