Dreams In Giza is a monumental artwork especially created for Forever Is Now .02 by Art D’Égypte and sponsored by GALLERIA CONTINUA. It’s a perfect union of the colorful and exuberant art of Pascale Marthine Tayou and the majestic and timeless history and culture of Egypt.

Twenty stainless steel tubes rise from the hot sand. Like flutes, ancient witnesses of the banquets and celebrations of the pharaohs, these new totems whistle and play with the wind. They are adorned with colored wooden eggs, symbols of good omen, of rebirth, a key element in the works of Tayou but also a reference to ancient Egyptian mythology, where the Cosmic Egg held a central place as a primordial symbol of birth and creation, generating the sun god Ra.

In Tayou’s words, “This project is an inspired poem from the verses of the gods because… Last night I dreamed that I was a baby pharaoh… Lying in a golden egg-shaped cradle delicately placed in the heart of the treasures of Giza.”