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đ Discover Yto Barradaâs reference monograph, Color Problems, available at @jrpeditions!â
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This long-awaited comprehensive monograph on French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada (b. 1971, lives in New York, Paris, and Tangier) spans her entire practice, from her acclaimed photographic series A Life Full of Holes (1998â2011) to her most recent research into textiles, dyeing, and âcolor problems.ââ
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â For more than 20 years, Barradaâs multidisciplinary practice has explored cultural phenomena and subaltern histories, strategies of resistance and disobedience, historical narratives and natural processes, the transmission of knowledge, and methods of archiving and collection. Language, translation, and print occupy a prominent place in her practice.â The book also explores Barradaâs commitment to the city of Tangier, where she founded the CinĂ©mathĂšque de Tanger in 2006 and the eco-feminist African campus and dye garden The Mothership in 2022, as well as her relationship with American artist Bettina (1927â2021), whose estate is in her care.â
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Major recent solo exhibitions include Comme Saturne, French Pavilion, Venice Biennale (2026); Le Grand Soir, MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2024â2026); Deadhead, Fondazione Merz, Turin (2025); Part-Time Abstractionist, International Center of Photography, New York; SoliditĂ© LumiĂšre, Festival dâAutomne, Paris (2023); Bad Color Combos, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (2022â2023); and A Raft, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2021).â
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21 Sep 2026
Ahead of âComme Saturne,â Yto Barradaâs (@ytobarrada) French Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, ĂvĂŒl Ă. DurmuĆoÄlu (@ovulodrmsgl) turns the planet into a metaphor for patriarchal power to explore Barradaâs engagement with colonial histories, language, and resistance.
Tap the link in bio to read the Monograph from Mousse 95.
28 May 2026
For Children - Art Stories since 1968
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30 Apr 2026
đ DĂ©couvrez dĂšs maintenant le 40e TextWork : « Le rose nâest pas rose ».
Cet essai de Yasmine Seale â poĂšte, critique et professeure invitĂ©e Ă l'universitĂ© Columbia â propose une perspective situĂ©e sur la pratique multidisciplinaire dâYto Barrada, artiste franco-marocaine qui reprĂ©sentera la France Ă la prochaine Biennale de Venise en 2026.
« Passer du temps dans lâunivers dâYto Barrada produit une dĂ©licieuse rĂ©orientation du regard, comme si les rives de la MĂ©diterranĂ©e se rapprochaient (...) »
đ Le texte est Ă lire en intĂ©gralitĂ© sur le site de la Fondation
Prochainement : Christian Bertin selon Skye Arundhati Thomas (parution février 2026)
Le programme éditorial TextWork est conçu avec le soutien du MinistÚre de la culture.
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đ Discover the 40th TextWork: âRose is Not Roseâ
This essay by Yasmine Seale â a poet, critic, and visiting professor at Columbia University â offers a situated perspective on the multidisciplinary practice of Yto Barrada, a Franco-Moroccan artist who will represent France at the next Venice Biennale in 2026.
âTime spent in Barradaâs universe produces a delicious reorienting, as if the shores of the Mediterranean had been brought closer together (âŠ)â
đ The full text is available to read on the Fondationâs website.
Upcoming: Christian Bertin according to Skye Arundhati Thomas (to be published in February 2026)
The TextWork editorial programme is developed with the support of the French Ministry of Culture.
CrĂ©dits : courtesy de lâartiste ; Pace Gallery ; Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Hamburg, Beirut ; et Galerie Polaris, Paris.
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12 Dec 2025
âMy Souvenirâ is a series of brief conversations with our friends and collaborators about the objects theyâve kept and the stories attached to them.
My Souvenir 02: Yto Barrada
A cushion made with fabric from her Aunt Najatâs TV room in Tangier.
âMy most precious object, the most precious textile from my collection at the mothership in Tangier, is the yards of fabric from my late Aunt Najatâs TV room. She upgraded to a new fabric about ten or fifteen years ago, and I got it as a hand-me-down, as with most of the furniture I have at home.
The colors are passĂ©es; itâs velvet with flowers, the backdrop of all the naps and family meals, with all the cousins, aunts, and uncles of my childhood. Itâs the same living room where we had snacks and meals together. A small space with a low round table in the center. We watched TV, talked, and slept tĂȘte-bĂȘche.
CâĂ©tait le lieu ou tu avais la certitude que tu su te tâendormais - petits ou grands - aprĂšs un repas, une main te couvrait immĂ©diatement. Un lieu de certitude.
Ă lâanniversaire de sa disparition jâai redistribuĂ© ce tissu en faisant des coussins avec.â
08 Dec 2025
Born in Paris and raised in Tangier, Yto Barrada works across photography, film, and sculpture, exploring Moroccoâs social, political, and environmental realities.
Her early series, A Life Full of Holes:
The Strait Project (1988-2004), documents borders and migration, while later works like Palm Sign (2011) use symbolic forms to provoke reflection.
Barrada studied at the Sorbonne and the International Center of Photography in New York.
She co-founded the CinémathÚque de Tanger and has exhibited globally, including at the Centre Pompidou, Paris, and ICP, New York.
She won the 2022 Queen Sonja Print Award.
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30 Nov 2025
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08 Oct 2025
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An excerpt from a film by @ytobarrada
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22 Sep 2025
As part of our partnership with South London Gallery (@southlondongallery), weâre offering the chance to win one of three pairs of tickets to see artist Yto Barrada (@ytobarrada) in conversation with Sarah Allen, Head of Programme, on Friday 26 September, 7â8pm.â
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The talk marks the opening of Barradaâs new exhibition 'Thrill, Fill and Spill' and will explore her multidisciplinary practice, which has long addressed micro-histories, borderlands, cultural phenomena and strategies of resistance.â
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Entries close Tuesday 23 September at 5pm (BST). Winners will be chosen at random and contacted via DM by 5pm on Wednesday 24 September.â
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Eligibility: Open to UK residents aged 18+. No purchase necessary. Travel or other expenses are not included in the prize. â
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Promoter: ArtReview in partnership with South London Gallery. This competition is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by, or associated with Instagram.â
UPDATE: This competition is now closed. Thank you to all for participating.
22 Sep 2025
Bettina
NON-WAIVER
September 13âNovember 1
Opening Saturday, September 13, 6â8pm
The exhibition consists of two series: photographs made in the 1970s and wooden sculptures realized between 1977â81, variously titled Weapons, The Cutting Edge, Stroke, Non-Waiver, and Shango. Both series unfold through Bettinaâs method of the ârandom constant.â A sign on the door of her Chelsea Hotel apartment pronounced: âunequal elements constrained and equivocated by a rigid structure of predetermined parameters.â
Emblematic of Bettinaâs systematic approach to repetition and variation, the untitled self-portraits apply this framework directly to the image of her own body. They extend her Phenomenological New York series (1972-86), which captured distorted reflections in the cityâs glass facades, carrying its investigation into her liveâwork space. She made the silver gelatin prints in her bathroom, which she turned into a dark room. Bettina often described her apartment as the âInstitute for Noumenological Research,â a nod to her sometimes humorous engagement with Kantian philosophy. In these works, the âeclipse of the selfâ is staged through her fixed-perspective method, while the column-like cropping of the photographs echoes the verticality of New Yorkâs architecture.
Bettina produced the wooden sculptures while living on a liquid diet, noting in her description of this series that she had not eaten solid food for an entire month, due to the rent increase of her woodworking shop. She used only a belt sander to arrive at the permutations of the wave-like motif, recurrent throughout her practice. She describes the volume redistribution in these works in terms of âsymmetry and asymmetry in non-waiver balance points.â Working with what she termed âauto-regenerative constants,â each object derives from identical starting elements yet yields different undulating forms through progressive displacement. In the spirit of Duchamp's chance-based treatment of standardized measurements such as his 3 Standard Stoppages, these works reveal Bettinaâs conviction that âabsolutes are merely constants that are equivocal and mediating and subject to change.â
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10 Sep 2025
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25 Jul 2025
Dye stuff everywhere at the Mothership.
09 Jul 2025
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