Black Man In White Space

© Chris Nash/Noel Wallace 2007

"Wallace stands on a white plinth like a work of classical sculpture, around his neck a yoke of crack pipes. This is a profoundly disturbing image that conjures up the period in the European imagination when ideas of the 'other' were being formulated. This was a concept that represented the exact opposite of the neo-classical ideas of science and art that under-pinned the period of the Enlightenment in Europe, a period roughly corresponding with the height of the Atlantic slave trade." Chris Spring (Curator, British Museum), Postscript 'Angaza Africa, African Art Now' Laurence King Publishing 2008