Yto Barrada is the winning artist of the Abraaj Art Prize 2015. She will be exhibiting at the Dubai Art Fair 2015 (18th-21st March) along side the three shortlisted artists (Sarnath Banerjee, Setareh Shahbazi, Mounira Al Solh) curated by the The Abraaj Group Art Prize 2015 Guest Curator: Omar Kholeif.
Yto Barrada (born 1971 in Paris) is a visual artists living and working in Morocco. is the daughter of French journalist Hamid Barrada. She studied history and political science at the Sorbonne in Paris and photography at the International Centre of Photography, New York.
Her Strait Project, begun in 1998, describes the static and transitory life of her hometown, the border city facing Europe across the Strait of Gibraltar. Her photographs capture a city tortured by dreams very different from those in tourist brochures, where thousands of immigrants attempt to make the illegal and perilous journey across the Strait.
Her recent work, Iris Tingitana, follows a different border, examining the interstices where the botanical landscape meets the urban, and Flowers, extending her inquiry to the fast-growing edges of the city, where the monocultural vision of planners and developers threatens to homogenize landscape and human lives.
With producer Cyriac Auriol, she is artistic director and co-founder of the Cinematheque de Tanger. She is also a member of the Beirut-based Arab Image Foundation.
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