You don't need to be Freud or Foucault to have noticed the affinity that some young girls show for horses: The elegant equine is one of the few culturally sanctioned avenues that girls have for experiencing and/or fantasizing about power...
This is the focus of Janet Bigg's impressive video installation Girls and Horses. Biggs doesn't so much deny or deconstruct the connection between women and horses as amplify and subvert its cultural meaning through visual delirium.
