Yto Barrada: Like Saturn
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Author: Yto Barrada
This catalog-cum-artist’s book elaborates upon the extensive research conducted by French Moroccan artist Yto Barrada (born 1971) for her project Comme Saturne (Like Saturn) conceived for 61st Venice Biennale. Working across photography, film, sculpture and textile installation, Barrada is best known for her investigation into historical narratives and natural processes, the transmission of knowledge and methods of archiving and collection.Like Saturn includes installation views and provides a detailed overview of Barrada’s latest experiments in the fields of color, language, mythmaking and material culture unveiled in Venice. Opening with a glossary of terms related to dyeing, fabrics and textile techniques, the volume then transitions into its core “plates” section, in which studio, artwork and reference imagery interacts with notes, quotations and oral memoirs to propose a subjective encyclopedia overturning Western conventions of the book.
ISBN 9783037646465. JRP|Editions. pb. 136 pages. 10.3 x 9 in.
not yet published
This catalog-cum-artist’s book elaborates upon the extensive research conducted by French Moroccan artist Yto Barrada (born 1971) for her project Comme Saturne (Like Saturn) conceived for 61st Venice Biennale. Working across photography, film, sculpture and textile installation, Barrada is best known for her investigation into historical narratives and natural processes, the transmission of knowledge and methods of archiving and collection.Like Saturn includes installation views and provides a detailed overview of Barrada’s latest experiments in the fields of color, language, mythmaking and material culture unveiled in Venice. Opening with a glossary of terms related to dyeing, fabrics and textile techniques, the volume then transitions into its core “plates” section, in which studio, artwork and reference imagery interacts with notes, quotations and oral memoirs to propose a subjective encyclopedia overturning Western conventions of the book.
ISBN 9783037646465. JRP|Editions. pb. 136 pages. 10.3 x 9 in.
not yet published