Pascale Marthine Tayou

Born in 1967 in Cameroun
Site : pascalemarthinetayou.com

Pascale Marthine Tayou, lives and works in Ghent, Belgium. In an interplay between money, power and art, his installations, sculptures and drawing play off, back to back, dominator and dominated, North and South, creator and spectator. Literally absorbed by the western world, Pascale Marthine Tayou is among those artists who are re-defining post-colonial issues through their European expe¬riences. He works on the identity-based contradictions created by globalization and plays on the relations he has with his own identity. His works have been shown at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin, at the Shanghai International Exhibition , at the MAC in Lyon, and at the Venice Biennale.


Pascale Marthine Tayou, Poupées Pascale, 2008, courtesy Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Beijing, Le Moulin, photo Ela Bialkowska

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