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Yto Barrada (born 1971) is a Franco-Moroccan multimedia visual artist, photographer and filmmaker. Born in Paris and raised in Tangier, Morocco, she studied history and political science at the Sorbonne before studying photography at the International Center of Photography in New York.
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We want to educate people, but in a pleasurable way.
The social dimension of filmgoing is important, because social mixing doesn't happen much here.
Because in Tangier everyone is nostalgic for this period they never knew – a period that I myself didn't know.
"Dyeing is like a witch practice of learning recipes, discovering old recipes that are lost and asking people to teach you what they know.
The way I remember things, the unreliable narratives, are part of oral history.
"In a way, Tangier doesn't exist. It's a changing idea as much as a city."
I have a very Oulipo way of working. I give myself a constraint, and then I have total freedom in the margins."
Back home in Tangier, civilisation means what would be considered here in New York 'losing time'.
There was a conflict in the beginning, because of the time that the construction and renovation side took up. Now I can say that they feed each other.
Nowadays I produce by walking. No pen, no computer. That's one of my forms of resistance.
I am also a sculptor and filmmaker.
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