How many horses does it take to change the world? playfully subverts familiar symbols of power. The installation takes the form of a large passage covered in drawings, where checkered panels reveal the arbitraru adventures and misadventures of horses breaking free from their pedestals, and from their masters.

In dialoge with Western iconography, the image of the horse and its pedestal formulates a satire on the structures that socially and ideologically organize contemporary life (work, prison, school, etc). Traditionally related to naratives of domination, heroism, authority, and strength, the represented horses emerge freed from such connotations. They are figures that possess an almost human condition by performing a set of activities that in contemporary reality belongs either to the privileged sphere of leisure or to the underprivileged one of misfortunes.

In reference to the ubiquitous joke setup, How many horses does it take to change the world? this work brings together representations of freedom and the remind of the imminent threat of violence hanging over contemporary societies.

The work was commissioned for the 5th edition of Anozero - Coimbra Biennial, The Phantom of Liberty, curated by Ángel Calvo Ulloa and Marta Mestre, with the support of Mondriaan Fonds.