Looking Back at Trash Shadows of Tim Noble & Sue Webster
You might not recognize their faces if you were to pass them on the street, but once you've seen the shadows of Tim Noble and Sue Webster, you're not likely to forget their forms. Like Christo and Jean Claude before them, this controversial couple work in tandem to create works that both critique and perpetuate the idea of art as spectacle. Pairing the language and imagery of advertising with the now often co-opted and commercialized opposition to commercialization, punk, the duo thrives off of conflict. Combining sex and violence, fame and infamy, trash and treasure, they evoke the initial wide-eyed response synonymous with that particular club of British art miscreants turned international...Read more