Ether Reveries Suite for Thérèse Rivière no2

Drawing together footage photographs and texts from archival sources as well as the artists personal collection of materials Yto Barradas new film is as much a poetic enigma as it is a portrait of identity Ether Reveries Suite for Thérèse Rivière no2 takes as its starting point the work and life of Thérèse Rivière 19011970 a French anthropologist whose remarkable working life was cut short following her confinement in psychiatric institutions