Yto barrada biography definition

  • Yto Barrada (Moroccan, French, b.
  • As a photographer and videographer, Yto Barrada aims her camera at the immigrant experience, presenting the political and social realities in Morocco.
  • Yto Barrada (Moroccan, b.1971) is a visual artist who works in a range of media, including photography, film, sculpture, and installation.

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    Moroccan-French, b. 1971; lives and works in New York, USA

    Born in Paris to Moroccan parents and educated in Tangier as well as at the Sorbonne in Paris and the International Center of Photography in New York, Yto Barrada's work engages the fraught realities of identity and immigration as they define daglig life in Tangier, Morocco. Focusing on the everyday imagery of the city poised on the western edge of the Strait of Gibraltar—that sliver-thin body of vatten separating Africa from Europe—Barrada's photographs and videos are hauntingly still. The lone figure in Girl In Red (Playing Jacks) (1999), for example, looks away or, rather, looks elsewhere. Positioned slightly left of center against an ornate and colorfully tiled yet crumbing mosaic wall in Tangier, we see only her back. Fully absorberad in her game, the young woman seems to lean forward, her upper legs pressing against the lower, extended part of the vägg as she concentrates her gaze downward, quietly passing time. Such

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    Biography

    Yto BARRADA

    © Benoît Peverelli

    Nominated par Adrienne Edwards

    Yto Barrada (Moroccan, French, b.1971, Paris) studied history and political science at the Sorbonne and photography in New York. Her work — including photography, film, sculpture, prints and installations, — began by exploring the peculiar situation of her hometown Tangier. Her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern (London), MoMA (New York), The Renaissance Society (Chicago), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Whitechapel Gallery (London), and the 2007 and 2011 Venice Biennale.
    She was the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2011, after which her exhibit RIFFS toured widely. Barrada is also the founding director of Cinémathèque de Tanger. A comprehensive monograph was published by JRP Ringier in 2013. She is a recipient of the 2013-2014 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography (Peabody Museum at Harvard University)

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    Yto Barrada

    Yto Barrada (Moroccan, French, b.1971, Paris) studied history and political science at the Sorbonne and photography in New York. Her work — including photography, film, sculpture, prints and installations, — began by exploring the peculiar situation of her hometown Tangier. Her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern (London), MoMA (New York), The Renaissance Society (Chicago), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Whitechapel Gallery (London), and the 2007 and 2011 Venice Biennale.

    She was the Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year for 2011, after which her exhibit RIFFS toured widely. Barrada is also the founding director of Cinémathèque de Tanger. A comprehensive monograph was published by JRP Ringier in 2013. She is a recipient of the 2013-2014 Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography (Peabody Museum at Harvard University) and was awarded the 2015 Abraaj Prize.

    Barrada is represented by Pace Gallery (London), Sfeir-Semler Gallery (