​​There are some animals that you can find easily around yourself. Among those animals, horses would be living with us as in different forms from a plate at grand mother’s house with horse drawing to a logo on a car or the emoji horses. Since this animal requires some amount of physical space and high maintenance, and humans have seen/used horses for mainly transportation or agriculture, now it is not easy to see horses in real life — you have to put some effort to see them.

‘Oh I see a horse, but I do not see horseness’ is a personal journey to understand horses more from both their perspective and how human’s perspective. To find horses’ horseness, the start would be see how they formed fundamentally. Alongside this, human’s horseness would be different by individuals interpretation. I would bring horseness back to contemporary society by looking at others and personal horseness and horses’ horseness. And my role would be make both horseness visible.

The compiled project exists in material formats; books, posters, prints. Materiality was an important part of this project because I wish people to be more directly connected with horses, and I think using senses like touching and feeling the objects is the most powerful way. For horses’ horseness, I studied the anatomy of horses. George Stubbs, one of the influences of the project and the pioneer of anatomy study on horses, made lots of drawings on horses anatomy because he wanted to understand horses. I think Stubbs saw horses as the same creature as human unlike the contemporary perspective, which is seeing the horse as a tool. Hence, my attempt to understand horses turned into the charcoal drawing on fabric with screen printed quotes on horses from different articles.

posters on fabric material with horses’ anatomy drawings stitched with quotes from horse related contexts. The second work is riso prints series. The third is an anthology — a collection of (edited) writings, drawings, photographs, and published based on personal reflection about horses. And the last one is custom typeface reflecting horses’ behaviour. The human audiences can find their own horseness by handling these physically printed material (the publication and the posters), meanwhile I invited the horses to the exhibition to say thank you.

For humans, I wish you could find your own horseness.🐴🦄