Horses and Ghosts

[...] In Horses and Ghosts, the ground seems to tremble due to the bold and trotting ride, in perfect harmony with the typical rhythm of the flock of leaves on the trees, where, moved heartily by the pressing wind, everything dances. In this succession of metaphorical scenes of an ambiguous character, in which it is possible to find refuge and at the same time scrutinize the threat, light and shadow chase each other among the variations of the primeval Prussian blue.
The subjects represented appear safe and nostalgic, masters of their run but alone, in a deserted and enveloping nature. Liminal places that mark the boundary between dream and reality, archetypes of an unconscious that likes to play with the foundations of psychoanalysis, glimpses of desire for the absolute and a return to a primordial state, with a strongly contemporary character, in which gender differences cultural contradictions are deliberately thrown into the limbo of nonsense.
Here, among vivid and resolutely identifying brushstrokes, we find ourselves in the throbbing elsewhere of cold fiery colours in which everything praises itself, often presenting itself as bare and authentic, free and abysmal.

Domenico de Chirico, texte de l’exposition, 2023 (extrait)