Oh Come with us and Gallop... 1997

Oh Come with us and Gallop... 1997

In this installation there are 52 horses made of wax, mapping a sequential narrative around the space, as in Muybridge's famous photographs. The first, on your left as you enter the windowless space, has its head down, the next raises its head slightly, lifts a foreleg...through to a gallop, when all four legs leave the ground for a brief moment, then slowing down again to a halt to return to the door.

Each horse is housed within a timber box, rather like a series of film stills. Concurrently running along the edges of the room are thousands of pieces of bamboo, from tiny thin twigs graduating through to the largest at 3-4 meters. The bamboo leans into the corners and through its placement creates cardiogram-like forms, which increase and decrease in size to match the implied speed of the horses.