Coloured stones
(Pavés colorés)
(2015)
Medium
granite, synthetic polymer paint on granite
Measurements
121.5 × 230.0 × 191.5 cm
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Suzanne Dawbarn Bequest, 2018
© The artist and Galleria Continua
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Pascale Marthine Tayou creates large, colourful installations and sculptures that explore travel and the effects of globalisation. Coloured stones (Pavés colorés) is an arrangement of quarried granite paving stones, each selectively sprayed with a primary colour. The paving stones reference times of social unrest during which they have been collected and used to combat police and anti- revolutionary forces; for example, during the French Revolution and the May 1968 student protests in Paris. The paving stones and range of colours point to the allegiances and divisions that make up any modern community, as well as to the concrete political history that lies beneath contemporary consumer culture.