A sublime take on the Sunday blues by the Cameroon-born, Paris-based artist Barthélémy Toguo. This inky artwork forms part of Partage, a series of paintings inspired by the French writer and poet of Egyptian origin Edmond Jabès. “Serious, provocative and satirical, Barthélémy Toguo’s artistic practice inextricably links critique and aesthetics,” says HdM Gallery. “Addressing migration, colonialism, race, exile and displacement, he comments ‘Men or women are always potential exiles, driven by the urge to travel, which makes them ‘displaced beings’.” This sense of displacement is embodied by the fluid figures that punctuate Toguo’s watercolours: “humans [that] morph into animalistic creatures in a formal mixing of identities”.
