BARTHÉLÉMY TOGUO

Cameroonian-born and Paris-based artist Barthélémy Toguo might be best characterized as a polyglot artist. Working across different artistic ocabularies, his work establishes no disciplinary hierarchy amongst a profusion of media. In Toguo’s prolific practice, which encompasses performance, intervention, sculpture, painting, installation, photography, drawing, and prints, the prospects of the human form in a state of dynamic transformation and traumatic reconfiguration represent a fundamental characteristic of his formal investigations. Amongst this repertoire of practices, Toguo has devoted considerable attention on the act of drawing, favoring especially the medium of watercolor. Though he works in simultaneous registers of object and image-based productions, the prolific outbursts of drawings that emanate from his studio enable him to display not only a command of drawing’s diverse formal possibilities but also, to convey a sure-handed delivery that bears no traces of erasure or correction.