Yto Barrada

Untitled (Promenoir Small), 2018

Barrada uses extracts from Mohammed Khair-Eddine’s 1967 novel Agadir, to further explore the Agadir earthquake. Extracts from this novel were performed, in which the Wicker sculpture became a prop for the actors to use and play with. This sculpture and many others similar to it, begins to resemble ruins of buildings, hotels and vacant lofts, which becomes sites of play after natural disasters such as earthquakes have occurred.Through the text, the viewer sees several issues and debates arising, since the text speaks to not only the earthquake, but also other forms of disasters. Through Barrada’s work, she questions how one restarts a life after a disaster has occurred and how to rebuild a city, where and for whom?