Born in Paris in 1971, Moroccan-French artist Yto Barrada’s work in documentary photography, sculpture, installations, and video has been exhibited by institutions including MoMA, the Jeu de Paume, and the Venice Biennale.
Barrada's STRAIT PROJECT began in 1998 as a series of photographs and other artwork made in and around her hometown of Tangier, Morocco, situated just 13 km from Europe across the Strait of Gibraltar, at the northern tip of Africa and the western borne of the Muslim and Arab worlds. Barrada's Tangier evoked both a Beckettian stasis and the anxious movements of globalization; the destination and jumping-off place of a society's desperate hopes to cross to Europe.
Since then, Barrada's formerly sleepy hometown has changed beneath her feet. All across the city developers are transforming pastures, marketplaces, forests, beaches, and historic buildings into commercial properties. The government is the primary patron of this push to recreate Spain's Costa del Sol, a dense sprawl of sunshine tourism and service economies.
Her work over the past two years, including the IRIS TINGITANA series, has looked at the botany of power: the marketing of Morocco; the homogeneization of the country's urban and botanical landscape; the paradoxes of the "third landscape" at the border between city and nature; and assessed the status of the palm tree, that icon of exoticism and self-folklorization.
The exhibit PLAY, shown for the first time at Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut, extends this inquiry through sculptures, installations, projections and photographs. The video projection BEAU GESTE documents an "action" in a vacant lot, inspired by the Diggers movement. The video wallpaper project PLAYGROUND documents the entropy of a children's area falling into ruin but still in use. A large illuminated metal sculpture of a cartoon-ized palm tree is shown along with hand-painted wooden sculptures of endangered flowers. GRAN ROYAL TURISMO is an automated, sculptural model which enacts the transformation of a drab miniature city in advance of an "official visit."
L’exposition « Le Monde comme il bouge » invite le public à explorer les univers d’artistes d’origines diverses. La Brasserie propose de réunir des œuvres sensibles aux bouleversements du monde. Les dérèglements d’origine économique, politique, culturelle, sociale ou climatique engagent ...
These photographs are a small selection from the first ten years of Erich Hartmann´s photographic career which began in l946 when he arrived in New York City after Army service on the battlefields of France and Belgium during World War II.
He never tired of walking the streets of New York, always with camera in hand a...
2012, année de Marilyn ! Pour célébrer cette femme d'exception, Olivier lorquin a sélectionné avec Bert Stern, l'auteur de "La dernière séance", un ensemble de photos qu'il est heureux de présenter à Banyuls-sur-mer.
L' AD-Galerie présente la collection de portraits du photographe Hiroshi Watanabe à partir du samedi 26 mai 2012.
Cinq portfolios consacrés au portrait constituent le thème de l'exposition d'Hiroshi Watanabe. Trois portfolios représentent un témoignage direct de...
Do you remember the first time ? features works by contemporary photographers Olivo Barbieri, Jim Goldberg, Nathan Harger, Adam Jeppesen and Paolo Ventura, presented for the first time in London exclusively at Atlas Gallery. Many of these exemplary contemporary artists have been exhibited internationally, and are included in museum and distinguished private collections worldwide, bu...
Neuf photographes, actuellement en troisième année d’étude de photographie dans une école d’arts appliqués – MJM Graphic Design – ont développé un projet personnel sur un an, en vue de cette exposition. Leur travail et la démarche d’accompagnement ont concouru vers un seul but :...
Organisée par le Conseil général des Bouches-du-Rhône, sous le commissariat de Véronique Baton, historienne d’art, et d’Agnès Barruol, conservatrice en chef du patrimoine, l’exposition « Se souvenir de la mer » se déroulera du 23 juin au 31 octobre 2012 au domaine départ...
La Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Cachan se déroule du 29 mai au 30 juin 2012. De nombreux artistes à découvrir autour du thème de l'altérité.
Le triptyque "Sortie Fauve" de Francesca Di Bonito a été sélectionné.
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