Francis Alys, born in 1959 in Belgium and living in Mexico has been extensively shown in Europeand America in the last decade. His extensive travelis form the basis for an eclectic body of work using the media of documentary film and photography, video, painting and performance.

When Faith Moves Mountains shown in the side chapel of St Mary’s Church, is a documentary charting an "epic response at once futile and heroic, absurd and urgent” to the recent political turmoil in Peru. On April 11, 2002, 500 volunteers were supplied with shovels and asked to form a single line at the foot of a giant sand dune outside Lima. This human comb chain moved a 1,600 foot-long sand dune about four inches from its original position.