Yto Barrada, artist and art
Born 1971, Birth Paris, France.
The artist lives and works in Tangier, Marocco and Paris.
She studied at the Sorbonne in Paris and the International Center of Photography in New York.
Artist biography, artworks, statement, interview, review, exhibition:
The photographs are part of the series The Strait: A Record of Northern Ennui (2001), in which the Moroccan/French photographer Yto Barrada (b. 1971) sketches the life without prospects in the northern Moroccan city of Tangier…
Interview with artist, with images of works
I thought: people say it’s better to have no life at all than a life full of holes. But then they say: better an empty sack than no sack. I don’t know.’
Barrada’s photographs and videos reflect her double cultural identity and raise the question of the “passage” between South and North, North Africa and Europe…
A Life Full of Holes
Auctions & Auction Results
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