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Yto Barrada : Tree Identification for Beginners

Yto Barrada : Tree Identification for Beginners / Editor: Sean Gullette - Pace Gallery; 2018 - 200p; 29x23cm

In this project, artist Yto Barrada weaves a multimedia refraction of her mother Mounira Bouzid's 1996 ifrst visit to the US, as part of a group of African students participating in the Operation Crossroads Africa program, a precursor to the Peace Corps founded in 1958 by Harlem-based , black American clergyman James Herman Robinson. Rather than accept the capitalism-and-democracy narrative proposed by her hosts, the young Moroccan socialist saw through to the revolutionary potential of the Pan-African, Tricontinental Black Power, and anti-Vietnam War movements. BArrada chronicles multiple layers of this history- overlapping, subjective, and unreliable- using archival materials, film, textile painting, and educational toys.


English

9781909406278


Morocco
N4390-5098 Exhibitions

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