![]() ![]() Operating as a non-profit organization, the Cinémathèque is housed in an illustrious movie theater dating from the late 1930s and acts as an arthouse cinema as well as an archive, research, and community center engaged in preserving the region’s cinematic heritage. These span from the artist’s involvement in Beirut’s Arab Image Foundation to the founding of the Cinémathèque de Tanger in 2006, of which she remains acting president (alongside board members such as artist Bouchra Khalili and curator Rasha Salti). ![]() These linkages navigate Christoph Chwatal through the exhibition.īased between Tangier and New York, Yto Barrada is perhaps best known for her “para-institutional” projects. Art historical and political references between Morocco and the United States, as well as an interest in forms and in medium-specific issues, are always interwoven experiences of collectivity in Yto Barrada’s work. The notion of motherhood anchors Yto Barrada’s recent show “Bad Color Combos” – first presented in Amsterdam and currently at the Kunsthalle Bielefeld – both in terms of Barrada’s personal relationships to her mother and children and as a metaphorical term for intergenerational and transdisciplinary (self-)learning processes in her project The Mothership, an eco-feminist research center and residency in Tangier. ![]()
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