Paulo Simão

A dip in Horace McCoy novel and Sydney Pollack movie They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (1969). This project is a quote from a key moment from Sydney Pollack's movie They Shoot Horses, Don't They. It seeks to explore the dichotomy between poetry and violence at a time of profound crisis, a crisis on a world scale with effects almost as devastating as those of the Great Depression of 1929. Horses are a metaphor for the role of the citizen in society, the spectacle is now represented by the curtain, the mirrored surface at the base of the image and the search for the perfect composition of the toy horses. Printed fabric 240x300 cm