Celeste de Clario Davis
For decades this life-size wooden horse sculpture has been more garaged than stabled. Packed in tightly amongst other similar relics that arrived, collected dust, and eventually departed over the years. Its previous life is as unclear as its intended purpose.
Horses and analogue photography evoke the mechanics of a lapsed time that has been eclipsed by modern technology. Eulogising their anachronistic qualities calls attention to their shared historical significance.
By chronicling this sculpture, I preserve some part of it—a proxy of an apparition, perhaps, but nevertheless a testament to the fact that it was and is.
The sculpture has been archived in light.
Celeste de Clario Davis, Installation View. Image Courtesy of University of Melbourne.
Celeste de Clario Davis, Equine Artefact: A Horse Through a Lens I, archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Celeste de Clario Davis, Equine Artefact: A Horse Through a Lens II, archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Celeste de Clario Davis, Equine Artefact: A Horse Through a Lens III, archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Celeste de Clario Davis, Equine Artefact: A Horse Through a Lens IV, archival print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag paper, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.
Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
University of Melbourne