Yto Barrada
The artist's activist approach navigates between historical reality and ecological projection.
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The exhibition’s third element is the publication of the Palm Project Manifesto. This fanzine was distributed first during a picnic as part of the 3rd Marrakech Biennale. The publication includes a poster listing a hundred varieties of the best known palm trees, the same image of the vacant lot, and the film’s technical rider. At its centre is a pink, typewritten "modest proposal" in Arabic and English authored by a certain Yahya Sari’. Yto commissioned a text with the same ironic tone as that of Jonathan Swift, given a new content here by the imaginary Yahya Sari’ as "A Modest Proposal to Modernize Morocco and Maximize its Resources and Efficiency."
© Photo: Courtesy of L'appartement 22
The artist's activist approach navigates between historical reality and ecological projection.