Yto Barrada
Yto Barrada (born 1971 in Paris) is a visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco and New York City.
Life and work
Yto Barrada 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.
Podcasts:
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by Autopirate
Say It Louder! (you Might Be The Nicest Thing I Have Ever Seen)
by: AutopirateWe must be better off, we must be better off alone,
Than stuck here in this clever mess of a life.
But the ties we share are too strong to sever,
And it looks like we'll be together.
The story, the story has been around forever.
You just don't get it, you just don't get it at all,
It's less about you and more about the way that we say goodbye before we even say hello.
We even start to believe that it's the way that it should be,
Just ignore those thoughts of reason in the back of our heads.
(Forget them, forget them, forget them all)
You left me with nothing, you left me with nothing but the fast,
Beating of my heart.
Racing in the back, as your glance caught mine in the car,
That collided with mine.
Let's see how fast we can go.
You just don't get it, you just don't get it at all,
It's less about you and more about the way that we say goodbye before we even say hello.
We even start to believe that it's the way that it should be,
Just ignore those thoughts of reason in the back of our heads.