But 'We Face Forward' doesn't occupy a singular a singular gallery. Another two galleries, several museums, communal venues, libraries and a bus have housed the collection, featuring thirty three artists and many more musicians from a grand total of eleven West African Countries. Huge sculptural structures, installations that fill rooms and even a genuine African trading cart are just part of what's on show along with photography, textile pieces, paintings, sound and fashion.
'The World Falls Apart' by Pascale Marthine Tayou is shown above, an interior forest housing an array of sculpural figures, interesting shapes and traditional masks.
Very reminiscent of Annette Messager's installations including 'articulated - disarticulated' (2001/2002), and 'Nameless Ones' (1993), not because of the subject matter but the placement of the objects. Some of the more sinister masks are shelved at head height whilst the unknown objects, and freakishly elongated sculptures of slender gentlemen, hang upside down from coloured chains.
Exposing the absurdities of borderd and boundaries visually. Barthélémy Toguo explores the effect of travel in relation to identity and freedom in a seriously striking nature alongside undertones of black humour and fantasy. The piece above, 'Purification' (2012) is a massively intriguing watercolour work that runs the length of the gallery's stariwell wall.
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