Yto Barrada’s ‘Mobilier Urbain’ at Pace Gallery London

“There are artworks that work on the viewer’s apprehension of an implied absence, and then there are artworks that simply stand there waiting for that apparent lack to be filled in by contextualizing talk. The former has something to do with aesthetic experience, the latter with a loss of interest in it, and standing among Yto Barrada’s work at Pace Gallery London, I get the feeling the talk wins…”

My review of Yto Barrada for Art-Agenda…

http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/yto-barradas-mobilier-urbain/