Wikipedia - "Yto Barrada (born 1971 in Paris) is a visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco. 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. 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. Her recent work, Iris Tingitana, follows a different border, examining the interstices where the botanical landscape meets the urban, and Flowers, extending her inquiry to the fast-growing edges of the city, where the monocultural vision of planners and developers threatens to homogenize landscape and human lives."
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Yto Barrada
Artist Project / A Life Full of Holes - Yto Barrada
e-flux - Album: Cinematheque Tangier
The Renaissance Society (Video)
PACE
YouTube: Yto Barrada on the ways the Strait of Gibraltar shapes life in Tangier, Yto Barrada on life in Tangier, home to "a population that wants to leave", Interview with Yto Barrada DB Artist of the Year 2011, The Spirit of Utopia
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