Jake and Dinos Chapman
When Humans walked the Earth: Instalation Shot 1 2007
© The artists, Jay Jopling/White Cube (London). Photo: Photo credit: Rod Tidnam/Tate Photography
With an exhibition currently on at Tate Liverpool the brothers should rightly be feeling very smug with themselves.
When Humans Walked the Earth is allied with their 1993 sculpture Little Death Machine (Castrated), also in the Tate Collection. Elements of the earlier piece – including a brain, milk-bottles and tools - are reproduced in bronze to create a series of impossible machines which imitate states such as breathing and thinking along with other biological states close to the Chapman’s heart, death and sex.
When Humans Walked the Earth references Dada tactics in transforming everyday objects into something that challenges conventional perception. However the objects are cast in the traditional medium of bronze undermining the scatological imagery and the artist’s rebellious streak.
When Humans Walked the Earth is on display at Tate Britain from today.
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