09.5.2015 - 22.11.2015 Barthélémy Toguo "All the World's Futures Urban Requiem" Biennale de Venise, Italy

« The installation Urban Requiem examines our shared human existence from varied and various perspectives: a scream, a reverent celebration, a ceremony, a memorial. This work honors those who encounter and endure injustice, and continues the investigation I started with Transits (1996); The New World Climax (2000); Purifications and Head Above Water (2004); Climbing Down (2005); and The Time (2011). In this installation, my work and process come together to focus on the concept of the ?other? - someone other than ourselves who shares our grief, our existence. As Camus said, "For me, art is not a solitary delight. It is a means of stirring the greatest number of people, by offering them a privileged picture of our common heartaches and joys." » B.T.