Barthélémy Toguo Quotes
born 1967 Cameroon
Barthélémy Toguo (born 1967) is a multidisciplinary Cameroonian artist.
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I hope Japanese audiences will feel that every work begins with an encounter, an exchange, a fragment of someone’s life.
Football means wealth and solidarity between human being
These are not distant issues; they are lived experiences, and my own life is part of that story.
You have to have some critical distance vis-à-vis information, precisely to be able to tell intoxication from information
Animism is not simply our past—it can also be our compass for the future.
LIFE and its celebration remain my obsession, the source of my inspiration daily. My projects… they’re born and live from day to day
Men and women are always potential exiles, driven by the urge to travel, which makes them “displaced beings”
That is what I seek today: not to persuade, but to create intimate encounters through art, from one biography to another, from one continent to another.
My works carry these accumulated layers of experience. They emerge as much from the great cities of the Western world as they do from the fields, the hills, and the markets of my homeland.
My works do not seek to explain everything. They offer fragments of stories, symbols, and bodies in transformation
It is a disgrace to always hear from the lips of certain Western politicians that “democracy is a luxury for Africa
I hope to create recognition—not exoticism, but a sense of kinship
For me sculpture has nothing to do with an African tradition
I have always had a very direct relationship with making
I always want just to leave, leave, leave again
Drawing allows me to get carried away, to visually realized my desires and fantasies… to translate my pleasures, pains, worries, once again to express LIFE.
It is through this almost physical relationship with matter that my personal history finds its form
The social, economic and political situation does not favor the emergence of young or new talent
I see and restore the memory of forgotten people, of nature, which I celebrate in my creations
We must guard against mediocre investment and political resignation in the field of art, which is confiscated