On display from 26 August 2020 at École nationale supérieure d’arts de Paris-Cergy
Invited by the Ecole nationale supérieure d’art de Paris Cergy (ENSAPC) Yto Barrada has installed an Arabocentric calendar of the lunar cycle on the facades of the ENSAPC.
Each of the twenty-five phases of the moon visually highlights one of the craters named for Arab or Islamic scientists. The Moon’s surface is riddled with holes; these craters, most of them the imprints of long- forgotten asteroids. Also long-forgotten are the names of many of those who first discovered and studied them —along with empty spaces in the history of lunar conquest; and the telling holes in the legislation which relates to its occupation and exploitation.