Timalle
Entry ID
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120 (10/02/2022)
Formal title of the work
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Timalle
Description of the sculpture
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A piece of performance sculpture made from crumpled reparations forms, adhesive tape, resin and rum barrel hoops. This re-enactment piece depicting the torture and bonding of a body, connecting specifically with the history of enslavement and the legacy of slavery in the Caribbean.
URLs where this is recorded/available
Type of object
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Statue: Full-length figure (single)
Base
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No base
Dimensions
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Height: 83 cm
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Width: 35 cm
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Depth: 78 cm
Materials
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Other
Specific techniques used
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Modelling
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Other
Overall colour
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Monochrome – orangey-red
Does the Black person have a specific identity?
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Anonymous: generic/idealised type
Role within sculpture
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Main protagonist
Gender
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Uncertain
Age
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Adult
Status
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Enslaved
Clothing
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Naked
Evidence of enslavement
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Other
Evidence of 'exotic' status
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None
Action or activity
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Being subjugated
Emotional state
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Anxious/fearful
Focus of gaze of Black person
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Unfocussed/blank eyeballs
Sculptural context
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No location included/implied
Sculptor
Place of production
Period of production
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Twenty-first century (2000 -2099)
Date of Production
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2017
Date inferred from
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Recorded in related documentation
Original purpose
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Other
Original display setting
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Secular Civic: other
Current owner
Current / most recently known location
Accession number
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2018.2
Current rights holder
License terms for reuse
http://13.41.147.145/s/database/item/992, . (no date) ‘Timalle’, Black People in European Sculpture, accessed May 5, 2025, http://13.41.147.145/s/database/item/986
