The collapse of the colonial enterprise has left behind a complex legacy, bridging the Mediterranean, and shaping how movement across the Strait of Gibraltar is managed and perceived.

For more than a decade now, French-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada has offered a reflection on postcolonial history and current geopolitical changes from a 'non-Western' art world perspective.Trained at the International Center of Photography (New York), she gained recognition in 2004 with her long-lasting project entitled A Life Full of Hopes - The Strait Project.In this photographic series - for which she received the Ellen Auerbach Award in 2006 - she presents an unexpected portrait of her hometown Tangier. Her works include films, installations, sculptures, and publications, and propose a combination of documentary strategies with a meditative approach to images.Introduced by Spanish writer Juan Goytisolo, this reference monograph puts together a retrospective essay by the art critic and curator Marie Muracciole, a visual essay by the art historian and theoretician Jean-Franois Chevrier, and an interview with Sina Najafi, the editor-in-chief of Cabinet magazine.Together with a large selection of works, these texts offer an overview of Barrada's work - a practice that deals with history and geography, family stories, and layered memories.

A rapidly expanding city with millions of inhabitants, Tangiers is rich in tensions between east and west, and its location in the Straits of Gibraltar only heightens its ambiguous status. Yto Barrada (born 1971) speculates on the political and cultural precariousness of her adopted city in films, photographs and installations.

For her first major London commission, Yto Barrada (b. 1971, Paris) 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.00Exhibition: Curve Gallery, Barbican Centre, London, UK (07.02-20.05.2018).

Catalog to accompany the exhibition "Memory, Place, Desire: Contemporary Art of the Maghreb" on display at the Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery, Haverford College October 24-December 14, 2014

Artist of the year 2011.