Yto Barrada: Thrill, Fill and Spill

This exhibition spans textile, film, sculpture, and painting, gathering new and existing works that draw on her research into colour theory, abstraction, ecological crisis, and cultural memory.

The title Thrill, Fill and Spill borrows from a gardener’s mnemonic (a memory aid) which describes: a focal plant (thriller), companions (fillers), and those that overflow (spillers). Barrada turns this popular design concept into an allegory for creative thought — anchoring, accumulating, overflowing.