Horses Don’t Lie

In 2013, Eduardo Navarro was inspired by a treatment method for autistic children, the one that aims to develop a sense of trust and empathy. He pays attention to human contact with animals and creates horse head masks, attire made of horse leather, and a prosthetic instrument in the form of a horse. He then presents performative practices—with performers put of those equipments—to deliver a mode of thinking through mental images that cancels out verbal language. A three-hour outdoor performance consists of choreographers’ extremely slow adventurous gestures, fully representing the bodily sense of language. For Mediacity Seoul 2016, the artist will present this performance two times in collaboration with choreographer Myung-Shin Kim along with five other performers. Throughout the event, except for the three performance dates, an installation of the masks and attire used in the performance will be on display in the exhibition. These are less a performance instrument resembling a horse than a kind of human-animal prosthesis.