Between  2000 and 2010 filmmaker Francis Alÿs has visited the Mexican countryside to chase tornado’s, and filmed his attempts whilst running into the eye of the storm. This resulted in the installation ‘Tornado 2000-10’, which we will present in Arti et Amicitiae.

For Francis Alÿs the tornado is a symbol of imminent collapse of a system of government or political order. A possible interpretation for this exceptional video of the politically engaged artist might be  (he was trying to make sense of the chaos around him) that only within the chaos he can challenge the turmoil around him, reaching the centre of the storm, breathless and almost blinded, he encounters a furtive moment of peace that could hint at a new moment of possibility.