Yto Barrada-Gallery Exhibition - Part 04

In a new body of work, the artist has hung two series of photographs, made with paper sewing lesson exercise sheets found by the artist in her hometown of Tangier. These paper lessons are designed for learning to make lines in various patterns with a sewing machine before the student advances to working with fabric. The lessons recall the pedagogical toys Fröbel, a series of play-centered exercises that incorporated kinaesthetic activities such as building with blocks, folding paper, sewing and weaving. Fröbel’s pedagogy nurtured an autonomous relationship to invention and creativity, whereby the parts that constitute the whole are made transparent and accessible, easy to play with and rearrange.