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This private display of illusions in the courtyard Mr. El Hamri's house in Tangier includes the apparition of ping-pong balls and white doves, swallowing razor blades, and an attempt to reproduce his difficult trick "How to Make a Chicken Go to Sleep (El sueno de un gallo)."

Yto Barrada (born 1971 in Morocco) is a visual artist living and working in Tangier, Morocco. Her Strait Project began in 1998, describing the static and transitory life of her hometown, the border city facing Europe across the Strait of Gibraltar.
Her current work  -- Iris Tingitana -- follows a different border, examining the interstices where the botanical landscape meets the urban, and flowers are a testament to the strategies of resistance at work, retaliating against the taming of public space. Her recent exhibitions of photography and video include Witte de With (Rotterdam), Fundaciò Tàpies (Barcelona), the MoMA (New York), Jeu de Paume (Paris), and the 2007 Venice Biennale. In 2006, Barrada was awarded the first Ellen Auerbach Award in Berlin. Her book, A Life Full of Holes - The Strait Project, was published by Autograph ABP in 2005.