Yto Barrada

Yto Barrada (born 1971) is a Franco-Moroccan multimedia visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. Born in Paris and raised in Tangier, Morocco, she studied history and political science at the Sorbonne before studying photography at the International Center of Photography in New York. Quotes I have a very Oulipo way of working. I give myself a constraint, and then I have total freedom in the margins." Nowadays I produce by walking. No pen, no computer. That's one of my forms of resistance. Back home in Tangier, civilisation means what would be considered here in New York 'losing time'. "Dyeing is like a witch practice of learning recipes, discovering old recipes that are lost and asking people to teach you what they know. The way I remember things, the unreliable narratives, are part of oral history. Some images just stick. Wu Jenny The Interview: Yto Barrada ArtReview 14 March 2024 https://artreview.com/the-interview-yto-barrada-bite-the-hand-pace-gallery-le-grand-soir-moma-ps1/ "In a way, Tangier doesn't exist. It's a changing idea as much as a city." There was a conflict in the beginning, because of the time that the construction and renovation side took up. Now I can say that they feed each other. The social dimension of filmgoing is important, because social mixing doesn't happen much here. Francis Ian Tangerine dreams: Yto Barrada Sight and Sound British Film Institute 25 May 2012 https://www.bfi.org.uk/sight-and-sound/interviews/tangerine-dreams-yto-barrada I am also a sculptor and filmmaker. Because in Tangier everyone is nostalgic for this period they never knew – a period that I myself didn't know. We want to educate people, but in a pleasurable way. Yto Barrada Alain Elkann Interviews 19 August 2015 https://www.alainelkanninterviews.com/yto-barrada/ External links Category:1971 births Category:Living people Category:Artists from Morocco Category:Photographers from France Category:Women from Morocco