For her Midwest museum debut, Tangier-based artist Yto Barrada will exhibit "Riffs"?, an installation of photographs and films that inquire into the daily traces of historical changes taking place in North Africa, the artist's home. Barrada, who is Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year 2011, has developed an artistic practice which combines the strategies of documentary with a metaphoric approach to imagery, resulting in a body of work lauded for its emblematic power. The installation which was previously on view at the Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin draws from past bodies of Barrada's work, including "Life Full of Holes: The Strait Project"? (1998-2004) and "Iris Tingitana"? (2007), reconfiguring them in new relationships together with the artist's most recent work.
Barrada (b. 1971, Paris) grew up between Tangier and Paris, where she studied history and political science at the Sorbonne. She subsequently attended the International Center of Photography in New York. After sixteen years abroad, she returned home to Tangiers where she continues to engage the complex realities around her, avoiding the rigidity of any ideological discourse, and without recourse to the spectacular or the melodramatic. In addition to her recent solo exhibit at the Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, a partnership between Deutsche Bank and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, she also exhibited at the 2011 Venice Biennale.
◇ Yto Barrada & Sean Gullette - Sean Gulette reads from Yto Barrada's "A Guide to Trees for Governors and Gardeners" on Vimeo
The Serpentine Gallery Garden Marathon was the sixth in the Gallery's acclaimed Marathon series. This two-day event explored the concept of the garden.
Yto Barrada (born 1971 in Paris) lives and works in Tangier, Morocco. Recent photography and film exhibitions include MoMA, New York (2011); Witte de With, Rotterdam (2004); SFMOMA, San Francisco (2009); The Kitchen, New York (2011) and 52nd and 54th Venice Biennale (2007, 2011). Books include A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project (2005). Barrada is the 2011 Deutsche Bank artist of the year. Her exhibition Riffs premiered at Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, and is currently at WIELS, Brussels (travelling to Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zürich and the Renaissance Society, Chicago). She is the cofounder and director of the Cinémathèque de Tanger.
◇ Interview with Yto Barrada DB Artist of the Year 2011 - YouTube
http://youtu.be/ji3RTigQEsk
◇ Yto Barrada: Riffs at Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin - YouTube
http://youtu.be/wvVX4RU_93Y
◇ When borders connect: Artist of the Year 2011 - Yto Barrada - YouTube
http://youtu.be/mrxuU7EEUdU
◇ Yto Barrada on the ways the Strait of Gibraltar shapes life in Tangier - YouTube
http://youtu.be/zjOLZmfBk-8
◇ The Spirit of Utopia - Yto Barrada - YouTube
http://youtu.be/44CRkCMvBrA
◇ Yto Barrada on life in Tangier, home to "a population that wants to leave" - YouTube
http://youtu.be/kS8Ah4uI0RQ
◇ Yto Barrada : inspiré du Maroc - videos.arte.tv
http://videos.arte.tv/fr/videos/yto-barrada-inspire-du-maroc--3870088.html
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