Yto Barrada unveils 'Comme Saturne' at Venice Biennale, France pavilion; devoré fabric central to installation
Yto Barrada unveils ‘Comme Saturne’ at Venice Biennale, France pavilion; devoré fabric central to installation Yto Barrada weaves histories of beauty and destruction at the Venice Biennale | Art Basel It’s weeks away from the opening of the Venice Biennale and most sites in the Giardini, the famous landscaped gardens to the eastern edge of the floating city, are still unfinished, abuzz with activity. ‘It’s hard to see anything because they’re planting trees, and the gardens are like a beehive,’ Yto Barrada tells me over the phone, while taking a pause from installing ‘Comme Saturne’, the project with which the Paris-born, Tangier-raised artist is representing France. ...