Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada (* 1971 in Paris , France ) is a French-Moroccan artist who mainly works with photographs, videos and sculptures.
Life
Barrada is the daughter of the French journalist Hamid Barrada and Mounira Bouzid . In her youth she spent several years in Tangier , Morocco, before studying political science at the Sorbonne in Paris and taking photography at the International Center of Photography in New York City . She later went back to Tangier, where she has been working on the A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project since 1998 , which shows the city as a counterpoint to Europe on the other side of the Strait of Gibraltar , a city of transition for many people Africa.
At present (2012) Barrada is concerned with another boundary, that between the city and the natural environment. The working title is Flowers .
Together with the film producer Cyriac Auriol , Barrada founded the Cinematheque de Tanger cinema , of which she is the artistic director.
Since 2006 Barrada has been married to the American screenwriter and actor Sean Gullette, who lives in Tangier . The two have had a daughter, Véga Barrada, since 2006.
Yto Barrada lives in Paris and Tangier.
Honors
- 2011: Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year
- 2006: Ellen Auerbach grant for photography from the Academy of Arts , Berlin
Exhibitions (selection)
- 2015: Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon .
- 2012: Loop, image and sound: Hand-Me-Downs , Study Gallery 1.357, Goethe University , Frankfurt am Main .
- 2011: Installation The Telephone Books (the recipe books) 2010, joint exhibition ILLUMInazione: Biennale di Venezia , Arsenale , Venice.
- 2011: Riffs , Deutsche Guggenheim , Berlin, as Deutsche Bank's Artist of the Year ; then 2012/2013: Fotomuseum Winterthur .
- 2011: Appropriated Landscapes: Contemporary African Art from The Walther Collection , Neu-Ulm .
- 2011: Women Artists in the Collection of the National Modern Art Museum , Center Pompidou , Paris.
- 2010: Play , Sfeir Semler Galleries, Beirut , Lebanon .
- 2010: Uneven Geographies , Nottingham Contemporary , Nottingham , England.
- 2009: Dress Codes , International Center of Photography , Manhattan , New York City .
- 2009: Tarjana / Translation , Queens Museum of Art , Queens , New York City and Chelsea Art Museum , Manhattan, New York City.
- 2009–2010: Elles @ Center Pompidou , Center Pompidou, Paris.
- 2009: Indicated by Signs , group exhibition, Bonner Kunstverein , Bonn.
- 2009: Face of Our Time , collective exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art , San Francisco.
- 2007: Biennale di Venezia .
- 2006: Award winners exhibition at the Academy of Arts , Berlin.
- 2002: In Capital Letters , Kunsthalle Basel , Basel , Switzerland.
literature
- 2011: Riffs: Deutsche Bank presents the Artist of the Year 2011 - Yto Barrada , Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern 2011 ISBN 978-3-7757-3021-1 .
- 2009: Dress Codes , International Center of Photography, New York, Steidl, Göttingen ISBN 978-3-86521-950-3 .
- 2002: In Capital Letters , Kunsthalle Basel, Schwabe, Basel ISBN 3-7965-1883-4 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2006 Ellen Auerbach Scholarship to Yto Barrada , accessed August 17, 2020
- ↑ Löchrige Leben in: Kulturspiegel 4/2011, April 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Barrada, Yto |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French-Moroccan photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1971 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Paris , France |