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THE
NEW BARBARIANS. TIM NOBLE & SUE WEBSTER.
April 8-May 22, 2005
The
New Barbarians
is based on a diorama of the Museum of Natural
History of New York. It displays a reconstruction
of two Australopithecus, ancestors of the human
race, recreated on the basis of some recently
discovered footprints that suggest a male and
female walking together. This discovery constitutes
new evidence that species previous to humans had
lasting social relations over three and a half
million years ago.
In
The New Barbarians, Tim Noble and Sue Webster
(Stroud, 1966, and Leicester, 1967, respectively)
create a life-size version of these hominids using
fibreglass and translucent resin, and lending
them their own facial features, thus carrying
out peculiar self-portraits in the line of previous
works, once again reflecting these artistsą interests
in human relations.
In
the work, the two figures, nude and free of body
hair, apparently having a conversation, seem to
be the last inhabitants on Earth who are wandering
through a post-apocalyptic land, in the middle
of a hall (the central exhibit space at CAC Málaga)
whose whiteness evokes the sensation of infinity.
Their nearly human bodies and expressions approaching
a contemplative state lend the work a strange
and moving beauty.
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