Benedicte Gele

These face-to-faces with the horse absorb and send us back to our own emotions. He stares at us but never judges us. These expressive eyes mirror your feelings when your eyes come into contact. He is you as much as you are him.

Through a modern and graphic writing mixing abstraction and expression, these imprints of memory worked in mixed technique, shape an intimate portrait of a horse which represents the collective memory of horses. Those present, past and those to come.

The horse has a range of very subtle expressions. The head is the central point. According to its position, its orientation and with the eyes and the nostrils, this is the basis for interpreting an emotion, which is often yours.

These naked bodies remind me of the human and particularly female nudes drawn at school. They are all bodies with fleshy or angular shapes, with dynamic or wiser attitudes. The horse has this animal side in addition, rawer, more authentic.

Every day in the skin of a horse. The horses' attitudes have a lot to teach us. It is always a joy to observe them in their environment, how they evolve together in motion or stand quietly, roll or graze. A rich vocabulary of silent language.

"Running on the ground substrate, feeling the irregularity of the terrain under my shoes, every hard pebble, sweet clump of grasses, smelling the scent of the fresh wet earth, the colors of the landscape swing in front of my eyes. I run. I’m alive."

Looking elsewhere. Broadening my horizon. Discovering other lines. Nourishing my art. To better get back to the horses afterward.