Author Description

"For her first major London commission, Yto Barrada transforms the sweeping form of the Curve with a dramatic site-specific installation - including a mural, a new film commission, several sculptures, and a series of live and recorded performances - to consider how a city and its people might address the process of reinvention following disaster. She takes as her starting point the hybrid novel-play by Moroccan writer Mohammed Khaïr-Eddine - Agadir (1967) - which reflects on the devastating earthquake that destroyed much of the modernist city of Agadir, Morocco, in 1960. Weaving together personal narratives and political ideals, Barrada presents a complex portrait of a city in transition.... Alongside installation views and images of past works, this new publication will comprise of a text by exhibition curator Lotte Johnson and a conversation between Yto Barrada and renowned architect and historian Jean-Louis Cohen."--