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Yto barrada is recognized for her multidisciplinary investigations of cultural phenomena and historical narratives. The film depicts a commando group of three men hired by the artist in a vacant lot who attend to a wounded palm tree. Actually a foreign import, palms turn out to be a point of controversy for tangiers tourist industry in her film beau geste. Riffs april 15 to june 19 deutsche guggenheim in berlin from april 15 to june 19, the deutsche guggenheim in berlin presents photographs, films and sculptures by the artist yto barrada. She received the robert gardner fellowship in photography in 20 and in 2016 won the canon tiger award for short film. Yto barradas beau geste a threeminute 16mm film about a tree trunk that the artist transformed with spry activism and artistry apes the tone and style of a. The owner of one vacant lot had made a deep, fatal notch in this palm tree, a phoenix canariensis, and was waiting for it to fall. Riffs riffs is the first largescale exhibition in germany of the work of yto barrada, whose photographs, films, publications, installations and sculptures engage with the peculiar situation of her hometown of tangier, morocco. This film documents a facile and efficient endeavor to shore up a palm trees roots in a.

This 16mm film depicts a commando group of three men hired by the artist in a vacant lot who attend to a wounded. In beau geste, barrada uses video to document her intervention against the type of progress that erases valuable read more. There is a selection of videos, offering an inside view of the world of a textile smuggler, the tricks of a magician and the trade in fake fossils in morocco. In the 8minute 16mm film beau geste 2009, a group of workers organized by barrada builds a cement support for a huge lone palm tree in a vacant lot. Deutsche bank presents the artist of the year 2011. In beau geste 2009, a group of young people try to save a palm tree in a plot between buildings to prevent a new construction being erected. Yto barrada 1971, france studied history and political science at the sorbonne in paris and was educated in photography in new york. Yto barrada s photographs, films, publications, installations and sculptures engage with the everyday life and times of tangier, her hometown situated on the strait of gibraltar. The film programme will be concluded by a keynote response by dr wallace heim. Peabody museum names yto barrada as the 20 robert gardner fellow in photography may 31, 20, cambridge the peabody museum of archaeology and ethnology is pleased to announce the. She has been honored as artist of the year 2011 and will now have her first institutional solo show in germany.

Yto barrada five films by yto barrada may 2015 july 2015 location high line channel 14, 14th street passage, on the high line at west 14th street. Past show featuring works by yto barrada, alfredo jaar, sebastian schmieg, malgosia woznica, pedro reyes, fikret atay, jawshing arthur liou, ana lucia romero rivero, andrew dines, jeffrey gomez, matthew flores and ziyang wu at academy art museum easton, 106 south street dec 5th, 2015 mar 6th, 2016. Her family moved to tangier, morocco when she was a young girl, and barrada claims tangier as her hometown. Beau geste kind gesture 2009 and handmedowns 2011 are both narrative, longer form works. The title of the show, riffs, simultaneously refers to the musical term, to. The voiceover informs us of the ongoing development in the region, stating that several thousand building permits have been granted. Ha studiato storia e scienze politiche a sorbona e successivamente al centro internazionale di fotografia di new york. Yto barrada exhibited at the tate modern in london in 2011 and in that same year was the deutsche bank artist of the year, her exhibition riffs shown extensively, notably at the deutsche guggenheim in berlin. We knew we had made it when the doors of the large cinema opened and 200 young men with their skateboards and their girlfriends came out singing the songs from the young girls of rochefort. Yto barradas photographs, films, publications, installations and sculptures engage. From the artists voiceover, we learn that the tree had been attacked by the landowner, who was attempting to circumvent a law which prohibits the sale of land where trees grow. Riffs april 15 to june 19 deutsche guggenheim in berlin. In the sminute l6mm film beau geste 2009, a group of workers organized by barrada builds a cement support for a huge lone palm tree in a vacant lot. Brittany, france from giacometti to murakami palais des arts, dinard june 12september 12, 2010.

Yto barrada s beau geste beautiful gesture, 2009 explores globalization as experienced in tangier, her home city in morocco, by presenting resolutely unspectacular images that often dwell on marginal zones such as geographical borders, parking lots, and abandoned buildings. Paintings and drawings sfeirsemler gallery april 22july 10, 2010. In the 8minute 16mm film beau geste 2009, a group of workers organized by barrada builds a cement support for a huge lone palm tree in a. Tabakalera presents the first solo exhibition in spain by yto barrada paris, 1971, which includes videos, photographs, prints and sculptures of her new work, as well as selected earlier pieces. In addition to beau geste, barrada s show featured gran royal turismo, a modified.

A return to premodernity institute of contemporary arts. The three films, beau geste, playground and handme downs, are also riffing rearticulating spaces, sounds, and meanings. Yto barrada s beau geste, beautiful gesture, 2009 depicts a different type of resistance, in this case to modern development in tangier, morocco, where the attempt to reclaim a piece of nature quickly becomes an act of local sociopolitical resistance. Just as a unique setting almost inevitably guides the artists figurative brush, a work of art can provide a distinct population with a filter for selfperception, a cultural identity. As a crossroads of civilizations, tangier has long captured the imagination of the west, and been romanticized and immortalized in film and literature. The motion we see in the workswhether produced through montage, camera movement, or distortion of the recorded imagedirectly connects the action on screen to the hand of the artist. Yto barrada, artiste, en conversation avec nadia tazi, philosophe, et marie muracciole, critique dart et commissaire dexposition le louvre paris france. Cinematheque tangier, on view at the walker art center until may 18, reminds us that place is an inextricable part of the artistic process. Barrada was awarded the abraaj group art prize in 2015. Yto barrada, lyautey unit blocks, 2010, courtesy ofsfeirsemler time, both are ferociously intelligent. Voir plus didees sur le theme mounir, artiste et tanger. We immediately imagined a place that was a port, like. Walker art center 1750 hennepin ave minneapolis, mn 55403. Yto barradas beau geste beautiful gesture, 2009 explores globalization as experienced in tangier, her home city in morocco, by presenting resolutely.

When the men in white shirts in my video beau geste 2009 take. The palm tree, an important icon in yto barrada s work as a symbol of exoticism and modernism, also appears in her film a guide to trees for governors and gardeners 2014. Frenchmoroccan artist yto barrada has won the most coveted menasa middle east, north africa and south asia art prize, the abraaj group art prize 2014, and a commission for the prizes 2015 exhibition at art dubai. Other uses 03doa aly, yto barrada, joan jonas, shelly. Film, 16mm transferred to digital, color, sound, 3. Yto barrada s first exhibition at lappartement 22 is a modest proposal in which the artist develops her vocabulary using photography, publications, film, and interventions in the urban and exhibition spaces.

If youre into arab cinema, habibi collective might already be on your radar. Barrada examines the impact of globalization on morocco by documenting images of everyday life, including parking lots, shopping centers, and locations on the margins of society. The prize, endowed with 100,000 us dollars, enables the selected artist to carry out an ambitious project. The discovery of oskar fischingers musical abstract films. It is a gesture through which the artist seeks to render its disappearance more difficult while nevertheless failing to prevent its. The films beau geste 2009 and handmedowns 2011 reiterate these. Her films, sculptures, photography, prints and installations are exhibited internationally. The former reveals nuances about land use, ownership, and regulation in tangier through a story. With yto barrada, deutsche bank has elected a woman as artist of the year 2011. Yto barrada juggles her work as an artist with running a cinematheque in tangier. Yto barrada s beau geste a threeminute 16mm film about a tree trunk that the artist transformed with spry activism and artistry apes the tone and style of a public service announcement or promotional spot. The parisborn multidisciplinary artist works across a wide range of media, from photography, film and sculpture, to prints and installation. Riffs is the first largescale exhibition in germany of the work of yto barrada, whose photographs, films, publications, installations and sculptures engage with the peculiar situation of her hometown of tangier, morocco.

Political issues and tensions are never absent from the work of either artist, burning slowly and calmly. A cinematic family album for morocco walker art center. The 2011 artist of the year awarded the abraaj group art prize the abraaj group art prize is one of the most important awards for contemporary art from the middle east, north africa, and south asia. Yto barrada at fotomuseum, winterthur itinerant projects. The rif was going out of business, projecting scratched old bollywood films to young men who generally used the.

Filmvideo the third program in the other uses series turns the lens on unseen processes, people, and objects. The film installation playground documents the entropy of a. Having grown up in the city and then returned some years later, barrada tends to focus on these changes, from photography series the strait project, showing how a culture of migration is etched in the cityscape, to her 2009 film beau geste, in which a group of men use concrete to reinforce a palm tree in a futile attempt to prevent a. Palm, palm, palmar is a project and exhibition that looks at the imported palm tree as a vector for producing narratives and imaginaries within colonial and postcolonial johannesburg. With yto barrada, deutsche bank has elected a woman as artist of the year 2011 whose work has been. The film work beau geste shows a group of men in the defiant act of stabilizing the base of a palm tree, cleaning and protecting the cavity at the base of its trunk. The town of dinard, brittany, follows up the spectacle of last years pinault foundationreliant qui a peur des artistes with from giacometti to murakami, a major exhibition of fifty works from leading figures including ed ruscha, richard serra, alighiero e boetti, lucio. Imported from island utopias across the pacific ocean and southeast asia during south africas apartheid regime, the palm trees of johannesburg complicate city imaginaries by blurring. The town of dinard, brittany, follows up the spectacle of last years pinault foundationreliant qui a peur des artistes with from giacometti to murakami, a major exhibition of fifty works from leading figures including ed ruscha, richard serra, alighiero e boetti, lucio fontana, and sigmar. The film beau geste documents an action in a vacant lot, inspired by the diggers movement. Yto barrada opens solo exhibition at mmuseum leuven. Two of barradas earlier filmsbeau geste 2009 and the magician.