Artists

Yto Barrada

Press release

Jury selection statement: "For her multidisciplinary practice that unites various artistic and social communities in search of a new utopia. An iconoclastic researcher, a borderless and holistic artist, Yto Barrada reinvents 'social sculpture' through the lens of alternative pedagogies and transforms the canons of modernism into a plural garden. From Paris to Tangier, and through New York, she traces a unique cartography that gathers new voices—unseen, fragile, historical, or forgotten—to share their narratives. [Her] poetic, incisive eye challenges everything we too often take for granted in terms of geographies, artistic canons and historical perspectives. She is an inexhaustible source of micro-histories, which she approaches with disarming precision." Curator: Myriam Ben Salah. Commissioner: Institut français.