City Strays and Wild Horses—HSU Che-Yu Solo ExhibitionPost date：2023-12-25
Updates：2023-12-25
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- Event Time
- 2023-12-16~2024-02-04Tue. - Sun. 10:00- 18:00
- Event Location
- NO.39 Chang-An West Road , Datong Dist., Taipei City Taiwan, R.O.C
The tales of the horses and the dogs unfold from two distinct voyages.
The horses hail from Mongolia. We captured images along a boundary within Mongolia, chronicling the contrasting landscapes on each side. This boundary delineates the realms of the Przewalski's horse and the domestic horse: on one side, a 506 square-kilometer sanctuary safeguards wild horses, free from human intervention – untouched and unaided; on the opposite side, horses lead entirely different lives under human care, serving as children's companions, workers, modes of transport, sustenance, and sources of amusement.
The dogs are domestic to Kosovo, encountered on the forays through Pristina’s streets. At night, we melded into the canine throngs, shadowing their movements until they dispersed and vanished. The residents imparted a saga of these dogs: in the late 1990s, as Serbian troops and Albanian insurgents clashed, domestic dogs were cast adrift on the battleground streets. Ever since, Pristina has been a tableau of roaming dog packs, with sporadic human-dog confrontations.
These creatures' modes of existence might illustrate diverse paradigms of ecological management. Mongolia's Przewalski's horses appear more liberated than their domesticated counterparts, yet they inhabit a Truman Show-esque reality, cataloged from the outset and under constant scrutiny by zoologists (and tourists). Every moment of their births, lives and deaths is archived, rendering them isolated specimens of "nature." In contrast, Pristina's street dogs navigate a world neither curated like domestic horses nor segregated like wild horses. They've weathered the storms of war alongside the city's denizens, transiently partaking in moments of tranquility and tumult.
*The works were grant supported by Han Nefkens Foundation.
The horses hail from Mongolia. We captured images along a boundary within Mongolia, chronicling the contrasting landscapes on each side. This boundary delineates the realms of the Przewalski's horse and the domestic horse: on one side, a 506 square-kilometer sanctuary safeguards wild horses, free from human intervention – untouched and unaided; on the opposite side, horses lead entirely different lives under human care, serving as children's companions, workers, modes of transport, sustenance, and sources of amusement.
The dogs are domestic to Kosovo, encountered on the forays through Pristina’s streets. At night, we melded into the canine throngs, shadowing their movements until they dispersed and vanished. The residents imparted a saga of these dogs: in the late 1990s, as Serbian troops and Albanian insurgents clashed, domestic dogs were cast adrift on the battleground streets. Ever since, Pristina has been a tableau of roaming dog packs, with sporadic human-dog confrontations.
These creatures' modes of existence might illustrate diverse paradigms of ecological management. Mongolia's Przewalski's horses appear more liberated than their domesticated counterparts, yet they inhabit a Truman Show-esque reality, cataloged from the outset and under constant scrutiny by zoologists (and tourists). Every moment of their births, lives and deaths is archived, rendering them isolated specimens of "nature." In contrast, Pristina's street dogs navigate a world neither curated like domestic horses nor segregated like wild horses. They've weathered the storms of war alongside the city's denizens, transiently partaking in moments of tranquility and tumult.
*The works were grant supported by Han Nefkens Foundation.
