Berlinde De Bruyckere: In Flanders’ Fields, 2000
Installation
Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp

Five life size casts of horses, wholly covered in horse fur and adorned with manes, lie on the ground or balanced on trestles. Inspired by photographs of battlefields during the First World War, the artist presents an image of beauty and sorrow, security and suffocation that seems to be fighting for attention. This is a fragmentary, stammering image of a memory.