Yto Barrada
A guide to trees for governors and gardeners (Signed Ltd edt)

Photographs: Yto Barrada

Text: Yto Barrada

Publisher: Self-published

124 pages

Year: not mentioned

Comments: Hardcover into a matching clamshell box with original "print"(risograph print?) signed, 17cm by 23,8cm. Signed and numbered on 350 copies. In perfect shape!!

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"In the satirical tradition of Jonathan Swift, and riffing on Brion Gysin's Dream Machine, Yto Barrada's artist book is a guide humbly submitted by an anonymous bureaucrat describing how to prepare an unnamed city for a visit by a high-ranking diplomatic official. The manual consists of illustrated instructions, graphs, charts, collages, and photographs, and promises to 'reveal for the first time ... a radical innovation' in the method of placing palm trees along the visitor's route. Seemingly reasonable at first, these directives - on repainting sidewalks, making cardboard spectators and arranging palm trees to 'induce a state of euphoria' in the visitor - begin to suggest something amiss behind the patriotic Potemkin facades.

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