Yto Barrada-Gallery Exhibition - Part 05

The themes of construction, reconstruction and collage return in an architectural context with Barrada’s photo-collages and her film ‘Agadir Anagram.’ The Moroccan coastal city of Agadir was destroyed by an earthquake in 1960; in these works, part of Barrada’s 2018 commission for The Curve at the Barbican Center (London), she examines the traumatic demolition and rebuilding of the city. Barrada’s collages include paintings made by now-forgotten textiles designers as concept sketches for textile or wallpaper designs; press photographs and telegrams.