Xenia Marita Riebe - Sculptures -- Schnabelmenschen (Part II)

The figures - made from newspapers -are human-like birds or bird-like humans here called "Schnabelmenschen - the missing link" referring to the duck billed platypus. They bring to mind the fact that it is a matter of impossibility to escape our destiny. Those human-like figures who dream of soaring up, of getting away from earthbound fate actually have wings, but obviously they are of no use for them. On the other hand, the more bird-like figures, who distinctly and visibly have some human attributes, which, however, are of a mixed blessing, as they do not enable them to take off. So both remain flightless beings, somehow a kind of missing link, intermediary forms of life that illustrate an evolutionary transition, here symbolizing the inner conflict in feeling and thinking as part of our nature.

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