Sahara per falsari e stranieri. Yto Barrada e l’”invenzione” della storia naturale

The article examines the reflections of the Franco-Moroccan artist Yto Barrada (b. 1971) on the invention of the Saharan landscape through French visual and cultural logics from the late nineteenth century to the present. It focuses, on the one hand, on her engagement with the thought of General Lyautey and, on the other, on contemporary techniques of resistance and subversion of the forms of coloniality that persist in ongoing dynamics of extraction and overtourism.