Mohamed Larbi Rahhali & Yto Barrada / Pernod Ricard Fellowship 2018
In residency in June, July and August 2018
Mohamed Larbi Rahhali (b. 1956 in Tetouan where he lives and works) graduated from the School of Fine Arts in Tetouan in 1984, where he also worked as Faouzi Laatiris’ assistant for the Volume and installation atelier. Mohamed Larbi Rahhali’s work is deeply influenced by his fisherman’s profession and his daily life in the medina of Tetouan. It oscillates between cosmology, esotericism and social issues such as survival and mutual aid. His work also highlights a collective memory shared between Morocco and Spain and testifying of a colonial history.
An open studio has been organised the Saturday, July 7, 2018 from 2pm to 7pm.
Yto Barrada’s work combines the strategies of documentary film with a metaphoric approach to imagery in her photographic, film, and sculptural work. Barrada’s work has been exhibited at Tate Modern, MoMA, The Met, Renaissance Society, Witte de With, the Walker Art Centre, and the 2007 and 2011 Venice Biennales. She was the 2011 Deutsche Bank Artist of the Year, the 2013 Robert Gardner Fellow in Photography (Peabody Museum at Harvard University), the 2015 Abraaj Group Art Prize winner, shortlisted for the 2016 Marcel Duchamp Award and was a Resident at the American Academy in Rome in 2017. Barrada is the founding director of Cinémathèque de Tanger.
- Yto Barrada, The Sample Book, 2016, exhibition view, secession Wien
Research project
Yto Barrada and Mohamed Larbi Rahhali will collaborate for the very first time in the framework of the Pernod Ricard Fellowship. It will be the occasion, for these two artists who were both part of the first exhibition at L’Appartement 22 (Rabat, Morocco), to work at the confluence of art and science, while developing a unique dialogue.
Working with a textile conservation studio, Yto Barrada will develop her exploration of understanding textile structures and techniques to create unique color samplers on large textile, using exclusively natural and organic dyes and plants. Concomitantly, Mohamed Larbi will work through installations and sculpture on the movement of planets and their possible correspondence to our inner, intimate life.
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