Beyond walls project
"Let's create together the largest human chain in the world"
Beyond Walls, Step 10: Ouidah
Biodegradable paint on sand
1.000m2
Ouidah, Benin (BEN) 2021
6°19'46.2"N 2°07'58.4"E
The previous steps
Beyond Walls, Step 1 : Paris
Biodegradable paint on grass
15.000m2
Paris (FR) 2019
48°51'25.4"N 2°17'47.0"E
Beyond Walls, Step 2 : Andorre
Biodegradable paint on
grass3.500m2
Engolasters (AND) 2019
42°31'02.6"N 1°33'50.9"E
Beyond Walls, Step 3: Geneva
Biodegradable paint on grass
5,000m2
Geneva (CH) 2019
46°12'25.4"N 6°09'54.7"E
Beyond Walls, Step 4 : Berlin
Biodegradable paint on grass
4.000m2
Berlin (DE) 2019
52°29'23.2"N 13°28'28.2"E
Beyond Walls, Step 5 : Ouagadougou
Biodegradable paint on laterite
5.000m2
Ouagadougou (BF) 2020
12°18'39.1"N 1°30'06.5"W
Beyond Walls, Step 6 : Yamoussoukro
Biodegradable paint on grass
18.000m2
Yamoussoukro (CIV) 2020
6°48'40.4"N 5°17'49.9"W
Beyond Walls, Step 7 : Turin
Biodegradable paint on grass
6.400m2
Turin (IT) 2020
45°04'29.3"N 7°41'06.5"E
Beyond Walls, Step 8: Istanbul
Biodegradable paint on grass
6.300m2
Istanbul (TUR) 2020
41°01'14.0"N 28°59'34.8"E
Beyond Walls, Step 9: Cape Town
Biodegradable paint on grass
6.000m2
Sea Point, Cape Town (SA) 2021
33 ° 54'40.2 "S 18 ° 23'20.6" E
A global project on several years
« Beyond Walls » project shows interlaced hands, reaching out, shaking and united in a common effort beyond all walls separating humans and enclosing them in mental or geographical spaces.
Thus, the walls erected in mentalities become fictive partitions, wiped out by artistic imagination. It merely opens a breach in the real walls, the ones built by humanity within and against itself.
In this specific artwork, the symbolic wall crossing does not eliminate the singularity of each of the hands: they all tell a life story and are subtly marked with multiple backgrounds (social, geographical, ethnical, etc.).
Beyond walls and with this universal farandole, every human individuality is granted rights of way and civil ones. The universality conveyed in this project is one of plural humanity.
“Beyond Walls” will cross borders in order to carry out this universal message and make it travel from city to city, all along this immense human chain.