This autumn, the SLG presents Thrill, Fill, Spill, a major solo exhibition by artist Yto Barrada.
Barrada’s multidisciplinary practice has long addressed micro-histories, borderlands, cultural phenomena, and strategies of resistance. This exhibition will span textile, film, sculpture, and painting, and feature new and previous works. It will feature a number of new textile pieces which were dyed at The Mothership in Tangier, Morrocco. The Mothership is Barrada’s artist-led natural dyes centre, a residency space and eco-campus where artists, gardeners and creatives come to work and study. Barrada is renowned for her commitment to building communities and fostering cultural exchange, as exemplified by having founded The Mothership and, in 2007, the Tangier Cinémathèque, North Africa’s first art house cinema and cultural centre.
The exhibition will embrace cultural exchange through an artist residency at The Mothership conducted by Emma Ogawa Todd. Following her residency Ogawa Todd will return to deliver workshops for young people as part of the SLG’s Communities and Learning Programme.
