For EXPOSED Torino Foto Festival, the Fondazione Merz presents artist Yto Barrada’s film A Day is Not A Day, 2022.
The film A Day is Not a Day (2022), commissioned for the 2022 Whitney Biennial, studies the industrial production of decay by accelerating sunlight damage and color fading to test product longevity. Both weathering sites are in extreme climate locations, Phoenix and Miami, where samples are displayed in open-air settings that look like large textile quilts. The film captures abstract, peeling forms that reveal the slow degradation of synthetic materials and nature alike.
The video work is part of Yto Barrada’s exhibition DEADHEAD (20 February – 18 May 2025), curated by Davide Quadrio with Giulia Turconi in collaboration with the MAO Museo d’Arte Orientale in Turin. Yto Barrada is the fourth artist to receive the Mario Merz Prize, an international award dedicated to art and music.
