These days I am immersed in a year-long art project on invitation of @vhdg.kunst in the context of their VHDG Lokaal programme.
Hyndertiid (`horse time’) looks into the life cycle of Friesian horses and places this in the wider context of early horse cultures in Europe and Central Asia. How do these horses – called black pearls – feed cultural imaginaries, here and elsewhere? Who belongs to horse communities in Fryslân, and who doesn`t? How do horse-people organise themselves and does ‘mienskip’ (a local term for the commons) play a role in their day-to-day activities? Since the beginnings of the human-horse bond, humans have done many things with and to horses: hunting, transportation, agriculture, warfare, breeding, sports, circus, and even cinema. But what do horses do to us?
The project unfolds through field research and a public programme – more about those encounters, and the great team that makes it all possible in the coming weeks & months. Hyndertiid will come together in a closing exhibition in the fall of 2025 in Leeuwarden.
Images:
– Silver Whip & Drawing of a Hard Trotting, Arend Wiltjes Nauta 1822 @museumheerenveen @friesmuseum loan
– Stallion studbook selection 2025 @kfps_royal_friesian
– Cheval de Frise (tank and cavalry defense mechanism named after Friesian horses), 1861-1865, Library of Congress
– Horse training carousel @staldemersken
– Mares & foals grazing @stoeterijkruis
– Memento to Lieuwe fan it Skarsicht, @charlottevanzijl & Dany van Zijl, Scharsterbrug
– Grounding drawing, Sophie Krier
– Frisian fable animal (unicorn), @historisch_centrum_leeuwarden
– Pazyryk burial from Baga Turgen Gol site, Bayan-Ölgiy province, Western Mongolia. © 2012 González-Ruiz et al.
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