Designed specifically for the large Césure plateau, site of the former university library of Paris-3, this exhibition offers an open landscape bringing together recent works and new productions by Yto Barrada. It is about, among other things, revisiting modernism, the art of rafts and drifting, establishing rules or breaking free from them, testing the resistance of colors (their “light fastness”) and to study the metamorphoses of flowers. 

The Festival d'Automne à Paris is the producer of this exhibition, in collaboration with Césure With the assistance of the PACE Gallery galleries; Polaris Gallery, Paris; and Sfeir-Semler Gallery, Beirut & Hamburg With the support of Sylvie Winckler and the Meyer Louis-Dreyfus Fund.

Yto Barrada (Moroccan, French, b.1971, Paris) studied history and political science at the Sorbonne and photography in New York. Her work — including photography, film, sculpture, prints and installations, — began by exploring the peculiar situation of her hometown Tangier. Her work has been exhibited at Tate Modern (London), MoMA (New York), The Renaissance Society (Chicago), Witte de With (Rotterdam), Haus der Kunst (Munich), Centre Pompidou (Paris), Whitechapel Gallery (London), and the 2007 and 2011 Venice Biennale.

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