Yto Barrada, born in 1971, lives in Tangier. Participation in the Venice Biennale, 2011. Deutsche Bank artist of the year 2011. Exhibitions a.o. Victoria & Albert Museum, London; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; MOMA, New York. Solo exhibitions since 2001 a.o. Fotomuseum Winterthur; MARCO, Rom; Jeu de Paume, Paris; Witte de With, Rotterdam; Galerie Polaris, Paris.
Hand-me-Downs
(MAR 2011, HD, 15 Min., enOF)
Yto Barrada digs into her family history and narrates sixteen “myths”, based on unreliable narrators and unverifiable stories, which she illustrates with strangers’ home movies and archival films from the last half-century in Morocco.
