Through photography, film, installation, sculptures and books, the internationally acclaimed Moroccan-French artist Yto Barrada explores strategies of resistance, as well as the natural sciences and the questions they pose regarding authenticity. Barrada’s new exhibition catalogue and artist’s book The Dye Garden are her preparatory visions for The Tangier Dye Garden, a textile and natural dye center based in Tangier, Morocco, that she is currently developing. The Garden will be a learning center as well as an archive. It is a space to acquire, and reacquire, endangered knowledge about the natural environment that reconnects us to autonomy, empowerment, and sustainability in a world in climate crisis.
The exhibition, Yto Barrada: The Dye Garden, originated at the American Academy in Rome in 2018, curated by Peter Benson Miller, former Andrew Heiskell Arts Director. It then opened at The Neuberger Museum of Art in Purchase, New York, in 2019, curated by Helaine Posner, Chief Curator of the museum. This exhibition catalogue, along with its special edition box set, were published on the occasion of the exhibition’s opening in New York.