Yto Barrada
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Yto Barrada (born 1971 in Paris)[1] is a visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco.
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[edit] Life and work
Yto Barrada is the daughter of French journalist Hamid Barrada. She studied history and political science at the Sorbonne in Paris and photography at the International Centre of Photography, New York.
Her Strait Project, begun in 1998, describes the static and transitory life of her hometown, the border city facing Europe across the Strait of Gibraltar[2]. Her photographs capture a city tortured by dreams very different from those in tourist brochures, where thousands of immigrants attempt to make the illegal and perilous journey across the Strait.[3].
Her recent work, Iris Tingitana, follows a different border, examining the interstices where the botanical landscape meets the urban, and Flowers,[4][5] extending her inquiry to the fast-growing edges of the city, where the monocultural vision of planners and developers threaten to homogenize landscape and human lives [6].
With producer Cyriac Auriol, she is artistic director and co-founder of the Cinematheque de Tanger.[7]. She is also a member of the Beirut based Arab Image Foundation [8].
[edit] Recent activities
Recent exhibitions of photography and video include Witte de With (Rotterdam), Fundaciò Tàpies (Barcelona), Jeu de Paume (Paris), Haus der Kunst (Munich), the Kitchen (New York), the MoMA (San Francisco and New York), Bonner Kunstverein, Modern Art Oxford, and Centre Pompidou, the 2007 and 2011Venice Biennale "The world belongs to you at the Pallazio Grassi]. In 2006, Barrada was awarded the first Ellen Auerbach Award in Berlin. Her book, A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project, was published by Autograph ABP in 2006. In 2011, she was awarded Artist of the year 2011 by the Deutsche Bank and in April 2011, she had a solo exhibition untitled Riffs at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (2011), that will open in September in Wiels, Bruxelles, and next June in Ikon, Birmingham.
- The title of her book is "borrowed" from A Life Full of Holes as told by Larbi Layachi (aka Driss Ben Hamed Charhadi) and translated in English by Paul Bowles.ISBN 0-394-17946-3. Copyright 1982 by Larbi Layachi.
- She has recently published "RIFFS" and the limited edition A Guide to Trees for Governors and Gardeners with Hatze Kantz.
A monograph on her work will be published by JRP Ringier in 2012, with texts from Marie Muracciole, Juan Goytisolo, and a photographic essay by Jean-François Chevrier.
[edit] Selected exhibitions
- Riffs - Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin - 2011[9]
- Play - Galerie Sfeir Semler, Beyrouth - 2010[10]
- Uneven Geographies - Nottingham Contemporary - 2010[11]
- Women Artists in the Collections of the National Modern Art Museum: elles@centrepompidou - 2011
[edit] Bibliography
- Godfrey, Mark; Demos, TJ; Weizman, Eyal; Hameed, Ayesha: "Rights of Passage" Tate Issue 19 (2010)
- Demos TJ: "Life Full of Holes" Grey Room no. 24 (2006) pp. 72–88
[edit] References
- ^ "Yto Barrada, artist and art". the-artists.org. http://the-artists.org/artist/Yto-Barrada. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ^ Tazi, Nadia (2007). "The State of the Straits". Artefall (16): 91-106. http://www.afterall.org/journal/issue.16/state.straits. Retrieved January 22, 2012.
- ^ Skye Sherwin (hursday 22 December 2011). "Artist of the week 169: Yto Barrada". The Guardian. http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/22/artist-week-yto-barrada. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ^ "That Unruly, Serendipitous Show in Venice", The New York Times 15 June 2007. Retrieved 01 April 2011.
- ^ Flowers posters; bidoun.org. Retrieved 01 April 2011.
- ^ "Yto Barrada Riffs". Deutsche Guggenheim. April 15, 2001. http://www.deutsche-guggenheim.de/ex_ytobarrada_full.php. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
- ^ "Butts in seats: an experiment in re-creating the culture of cinema in Tangier" A lecture by Yto Barrada (2010)
- ^ "Arab Image Foundation - About us > Organization Governance". Arab Image Foundatio. http://www.fai.org.lb/Template.aspx?id=4. Retrieved 20 January 2012.
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- ^ Galerie Sfeir Semler, 2010
- ^ Nottingham Contemporary - 2010
