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A white wall displays numerous illuminated signs in different colours and languages, all indicating "open". The signs are arranged side by side, creating a bright visual effect.
Open Wall, 2010 © Pascale Marthine Tayou|Georges Meguerditchian - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP|Adagp, Paris|SABAM Belgium 2018
Open Wall, 2010 — © Pascale Marthine Tayou|Georges Meguerditchian - Centre Pompidou, MNAM-CCI /Dist. RMN-GP|Adagp, Paris|SABAM Belgium 2018

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Two works by the artists Pascale Marthine TAYOU and Jean TINGUELY on show at the entrance to KANAL – Centre Pompidou.

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Pascale Marthine TAYOU, Open Wall, 2010

Dividing his time between Ghent and Yaoundé, Pascale Marthine Tayou has made of accumulation one of the guiding principles of his work. Tayou questions the institutional dimension of spaces devoted to art and sets out to turn his installations into places of communication and exchange. Composed of electroluminescent and neon signs picked up around the world, Open Wall illustrates these concerns in an exemplary fashion. ‘Open’, which sounds like an injunction in every language, comes across as an eulogy to cultural diversity and exchange but also as a critique of globalization.