Luchezar BoyadjievOn Vacation…. Simon Bolivar from New York, 2004

Luchezar Boyadjiev

2004-2013, Photography Installation

This photographic collection presents images of equestrian monuments from all around the world. By removing the figures of the riders from the images – most of them male rulers and warriors – with the help of digital reworking, Boyadjiev creates an unsettling effect and invites viewers to question the rationale behind marking public space with statues of political heroes who tend to be representations of patriarchal power. But he achieves something else too: we are free to admire the beauty of horses, something that has long been ignored in these monuments.