This curatorial and artistic research stems from noticing and observing the prominent scrotums of equestrian statues. Mostly present in main squares, parks or centers of cities, no matter where in the world, this kind of sculpture is almost omnipresently of a male figure on a horse. They are physical representations of historical facts and were created and installed in public spaces as marks of a specific remembrance narrative, as monuments of victory. The overexposure of normative masculine symbols applied to a horse shows an animal that, throughout history, has been domesticated to not only serve, but maximize strength and virility. To state power.

Why can't horse statues be mares? conjures the figure of a mare with the intention to break this imaginary. An anticolonial proposition to counterpoint and invoke who should actually be remembered and, why not, monumentalized. Moved by a queer critique perspective, this investigation wishes to address, criticize, respond and satirize this hegemonical way of representing history by evoking historical art works from queer artists.

Taking the horse, or rather, the mare as the point of departure, the selection of artists gather examples of action, intervention, performance and text that subvert a certain order imposed by political repressive regimes and patriarchal logics.