Pascale Martine Tayou is an autodidact. After various wanderings around Europe, he now lives and works in Ghent. In his work he confronts personal aspects of his life in Cameroon and Europe with such universal themes as economics, identity and migration. He often uses his work to raise thorny socio-political questions concerning cultural and national identity. Africa, and his native country of Cameroon in particular, are virtually always present in his work. “Cameroon is my registered trade mark, the basis from which everything started. I find it important to show this in my work so that everyone there who keeps track of me can see that anything is possible”.
