World Share: Installations by Pascale Marthine Tayou gives us a
large-scale immersive environment that combines the artist's
sculpture, drawings, and poetry with Fowler artworks. Assembled
from a stunning diversity of materials and found objects, Tayou's
art is characterized by an aesthetic of accumulation. He pierces
Styrofoam with thousands of pins and razor blades, stacks hundreds
of birdhouses against a wall, and adorns crystal glass figures with
beads, plastic flowers, and feathers. This approach derives in part
from the ways African sculpture is empowered with accumulations of
materials to assert various kinds of religious, social, and
political authority. Tayou uses this aesthetic to raise searching
questions about inequalities of wealth and power in today's
postcolonial, global context at the same time he explores the
hidden, spiritual forces that infuse ordinary, everyday life in
African cities. Pascale Marthine Tayou was born in Nkongsamba,
Cameroon, and lives and works in Ghent, Belgium.
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