Calligraphy Square & surroundings
Part 3 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.
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Venue: Sharjah Calligraphy Museum
Chalks and Pins. 2011
Chalks and pins
Charcoal. 2012
Charcoal
Pascale Marthine Tayou’s work is deliberately mobile, elusive and heterogeneous, closely linked to the idea of travel and coming into contact with what is other to the self. Charcoal and Chalks and Pins are a sort of tapestry made from multicoloured pieces of chalk and black charcoal lined up in horizontal and diagonal rows. The compositions are inspired by Cameroonian tradition, but also allude to the processes of art-making and to educational tools through the choice of materials typically used for writing or drawing. The works propose the idea of the artist as a "maker", an individual who reorganises aspects of society usually viewed as static and entangled.
© Photo: Haupt & Binder
© Text: SB11 Guidebook
Part 3 of the photo tour of Sharjah Biennial 11: Re:emerge. Towards a New Cultural Cartography, 13 March - 13 May 2013. Curator: Yuko Hasegawa. More than 100 participants.