Yto
Barrada
Yto
Barrada
Barrada
City and countryside are amongst the leitmotifs of the largely photographic work of Yto Barrada. Originally from Tangier, she endeavours to observe “resistance to the domestication of space” in the Moroccan city, as well as its complex relationship with Europe, just a thin stretch of water away.
Born in Paris, Yto Barrada studied history and political sciences at the Sorbonne, and then photography in New York. Her art work, with its undeniable anthropological and political dimension, doubles as strong civic engagement. She is part of the Arab Image Foundation, the only archive of images of the Arab world. In 2006, she founded the Cinémathèque de Tanger, an art house cinema in Tangier established to develop and disseminate Moroccan film culture.
The artist’s work was first presented by the Pinault Collection in 2011 at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi.
Born in Paris, Yto Barrada studied history and political sciences at the Sorbonne, and then photography in New York. Her art work, with its undeniable anthropological and political dimension, doubles as strong civic engagement. She is part of the Arab Image Foundation, the only archive of images of the Arab world. In 2006, she founded the Cinémathèque de Tanger, an art house cinema in Tangier established to develop and disseminate Moroccan film culture.
The artist’s work was first presented by the Pinault Collection in 2011 at the "Le Monde vous appartient" (“The World Belongs to You”) exhibition at the Palazzo Grassi.
