Mur Rouge Figure #5

YTO BARRADA, born in Paris, France, in 1971, reinterprets social relations, revealing subaltern histories and the predominance of fiction in institutionalized discourses. Through the use of visual and textual relics, Barrada finds anchor points in non-hegemonic historical narrative and aesthetic imagination, condensing different temporal instances. Her multidisciplinary artistic practice celebrates everyday forms of reclaiming autonomy, with disobedience and insurrection as central axes.
In Mur Rouge Figure 5 (2010), the artist presents the landscape of Tangier, the Moroccan city where she grew up, promoting a break with the orientalist aesthetic fetishism that characterizes representations of the Arab world. Barrada produces new readings on themes such as time and displacement, showing how visual language can provide models for understanding alternative ways of being in the world. It is, above all, a critical reflection that seeks to destabilize the forms of contemporary imperialism.