Tim
Noble and Sue Webster take ordinary things including
rubbish, to make assemblages and then point light to create projected
shadows which show a great likeness to something identifiable
including self-portraits. The art of projection is emblematic of
transformative art. The process of transformation, from discarded
waste, scrap metal or even taxidermy creatures to a recognizable
image, echoes the idea of 'perceptual psychology' a form of
evaluation used for psychological patients. Noble and Webster are
familiar with this process and how people evaluate abstract forms.
Throughout their careers they have played with the idea of how humans
perceive abstract images and define them with meaning. The result is
surprising and powerful as it redefines how abstract forms can
transform into figurative ones.
Parallel
to their shadow investigations, Noble and Webster have created a
series of light sculptures that reference iconic pop culture symbols
represented in the form of shop-front-type signage and carnival shows
inherent of British seaside towns, Las Vegas and Times Square. With
the aid of complex light sequencing these signs perpetually flash and
spiral out messages of everlasting love, and hate.
Noble
& Webster have created a remarkable group of anti-monuments in
their fourteen-year career, mixing the strategies of modern sculpture
and the attitude of punk to make art from anti-art. Their work
derives much of its power from its fusion of opposites, form and
anti-form, high culture and anti-culture, male and female, craft and
rubbish, sex and violence.
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