Swedish Artist Tove Kjellmark asked me to be a collaborator and curator for her upcoming art exhibition The Horse, The Robot, and The Immeasurable, which will open in October 2022. Tove has dedicated almost 2 years to this project, and she has 3D scanned, filmed (thermocamera), and photographed my horses on several occasions. We decided to bring my perlino-colored Akhal Teke mare Setare to the art space at Färgfabriken to see how she would interact with the space and to document this with a photographer.
Setare entered the large room with curiosity, proceeding carefully in her chic rubber boots. Her color matched the walls exquisitely, as we had painted the walls based on her shimmering silvery golden coat. As we worked with her, an idea grew that Setare would open the show, the horse initiating the horse/robot/human art lab. A ceremonial performance is also under construction, in which Setare and I will serve as a sacral link – connecting this world with the other world – to call back memories of horses that have been our dearest family members but now are dead. They keep on living through our memories of them, and if we remember them TOGETHER their presence will grow even stronger.
