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Yto Barrada’s solo exhibition at The Power Plant continues the artist’s recent work around fossil evidence, paleontology, museology and natural history in Morocco. At the centre of the exhibition is Faux départ (2015), a film that pays homage to the fossil "preparators" in the arid region between the Atlas Mountains and the Sahara Desert, whose intrepid work is fuelling a thriving trade in artifacts real, faux and hybrid. A rebuke to the fetishistic thirst for foreign objects, Faux départ is a sly meditation on authenticity and a paean to creativity. The exhibition presents a …