Berlinde De Bruyckere,

K 21 ( with detail ),

2006,

Horse skin, horse hair, expoxy resin, iron, wood, glass

193 x 177 x 96 cm.

An unsettling, reconfigured concept of the body, helpless yet contorted, takes centre stage in Berlinde de Bruyckere’s faceless sculptures. Abject deformation is turned into beauty as if the artist is trying to wrestle a shape from abstract form. That each body, whether human or equine, stands on a plinth or inside a cabinet, as if posing for the viewer, emphasises their monumentalised objecthood and the tension between what these objects represent and what they actually are. 

(Source: saatchi-gallery.co.uk)