Barthélémy Toguo is a multidisciplinary visual artist, combining drawing, painting, sculpture, installation and performance. Her work explores themes of identity, immigration, social injustice, war, famine, and the human condition.

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Trained at the Beaux-Arts in Abidjan, Grenoble and Dusseldorf, he now works between Paris and Bandjoun in Cameroon.

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Political and poetic, her plastic voice confronts her African roots with the violent modernity of our world. Through his creations, he seeks to awaken consciousness, to question us about our humanity. To highlight the presence of suffering in human life, Toguo plants nails in the bodies of his figures, transforming his characters into everyday martyrs.

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He is also known for his commitment to African communities, in particular through his Bandjoun Station foundation in Cameroon, a place of residence dedicated to contemporary art, research and education, created in 2008.

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His works are present at major events such as the Lyon, Venice and Sydney Biennale, as well as in prestigious museums such as the Pompidou Center or the Louvre. A monographic exhibition was dedicated to him in 2021 at the Quai Branly-Jacques Chirac Museum. Several of his works are in public and private collections: the Tate Modern in London, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Pérez Art Museum in Miami and the Louis Vuitton Foundation.

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