On November 2025, Adrián Villar Rojas will unveil Untitled: The Language of the Enemy, a new sculpture conjuring a fictionalised prehistory — an imagined moment when Neanderthals and Homo sapiens first collaborated to create meaning. Co-commissioned by the Aspen Art Museum and Audemars Piguet Contemporary, the piece depicts a scene from the distant past, where an encounter with fossilised dinosaur remains could have sparked the first act of artistic expression.
Villar Rojas's artistic practice involves collaborative fabulation, creating speculative worlds through sculpture, drawing, video, literature and performative systems of creation. In this new body of work, he presents an alternative theoretical history that challenges the dominant anthropocentric narratives of human exceptionalism. Although the creation of symbols, such as language, art and ritual, has long been considered an invention of Homo sapiens, recent findings suggest that Neanderthals may have engaged in such practices of creating meaning before us.
Adrián Villar Rojas's work, Untitled (The Language of the Enemy), will be on display in the Vallée de Joux from November 2025 onwards. Further details will be announced soon. A second presentation will follow in the summer of 2026 at the Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado, as part of a multi-floor exhibition of Villar Rojas’ work.
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