Wallpaper - Tangier, from the series: A Life Full of Holes: the Strait Project

2001

Object description	Color photograph
Object category	sculpture
Dimensions	Objektmaß: height: 60 cm, width: 60 cm Rahmenmaß: height: 63 cm, width: 63 cm, depth: 3,5 cm
Year of acquisition	2006
Inventory number	G 1168/0
Creditline	mumok - Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
Rights reference	Barrada, Yto
Further information about the person	Barrada, Yto [GND]
Literature	Why picture now/Fotografie, Film, Video, heute

The Strait of Gibraltar is the place that like no other marks the line separating the rich North from the poor South. The strait becomes a challenge for thousands of Africans each year to risk the dangerous leap to a better life. With a series of photographs, Yto Barrada documents the state of waiting and expectation that more and more dominates Morocco, especially her hometown Tangiers. The photographs refuse any dramatics, instead tracing out moments of an everyday life that is marked by completed, intended, and blocked migration, and relate these moments to tourism as a contrasting form of mobility.