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Pascale Marthine Tayou
dal 18/1/2002 al 3/3/2002
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18/1/2002

Pascale Marthine Tayou

Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

Le menu familial. Instinctively Tayou knows how much to exhibit to enable the visitors' immersion into the portrayed African village life, without confusing or overwhelming them.


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The artist Pascale Marthine Tayou, born in Kamerun in 1967 and now living in Brussels, originally wanted to become a lawyer for the poor. As an internationally active mediator between cultures, Tayou has in actual fact become an even more influential lawyer of worldwide communication.

In Berne Tayou has staged a virtual visit to the village of his childhood. High walls made from plaster subdivide the exhibition rooms into a kind of labyrinth and appear as an abstraction of the lower, red-brown brick walls captured on countless photographs hanging on the plaster walls. These large and colourful snapshots tell of the joyous life documented by Tayou on his last visit to the village. Sounds and a babble of voices are to be heard coming from different spontaneously shot videos screened behind these walls.

Instinctively Tayou knows how much to exhibit to enable the visitors' immersion into the portrayed African village life, without confusing or overwhelming them. At the same time, one is made aware of the rituals accompanying the Western way of life: The 16 postcard stands set up in the entrance filled with colourful snapshots recall souvenir shops found all over the world.

Parallel to Tayou's show, the visiting curator Evelyne Jouanno has invited the Cambalache Collective for her eighth and last exhibition in the project room of the Kunsthalle Bern. This collective of artists, formed in 1998 in the Columbian Bogota, has developed the idea of a 'street museum' intended for the exchange of useable and useful objects.
(transl. Carlotta Graedel Matthäi)

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