Pascale Marthine Tayou: ‘Plastik Diagnostik’
Pascale Marthine Tayou: ‘HUMAN BEING@WORK (2007– ongoing)’, Milton Keynes Gallery 2007. Copyright: Jerry Hardman-Jones
Pascale Marthine Tayou: ‘Plastik Diagnostik’
17 November 2007 – 13 January 2008
Through his installations, drawings, films and performances, Pascale Marthine Tayou (Cameroon, b. 1966) articulates the nomadic existence of his life, from birth in Cameroon to travelling throughout Europe and his ceaseless journeying as an artist working internationally and moving from country to country. For his first exhibition in the UK, Marthine Tayou will show a selection of work that questions cultural and national identity and the role of the individual. As a self described foreigner and traveller, his work is directly influenced by the drama that he witnesses on the streets of the countries he travels through, and is manifest in the personal artefacts and ephemera including train and airline ticket stubs, restaurant and shop receipts and labels or wrappings for socks, razors and batteries. His insistent reuse and recycling of these objects confirms the fluidity and borderlessness of space, culture and thought, and that one’s own biography is inextricably linked wi!
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