Berlinde de Bruyckere is a young artist from Belgium. The duality of love and suffering, danger and protection, life and death continually arises in her work. In her horse sculptures she covers the casts of horses’ bodies with skins and models them into poses.  Berlinde de Bruyckere says of the horses’ heads, ‘at the last moment I decided I didn’t want to see a face , nor a muzzle, I sometimes only want to keep a reference to the ears, which are somehow what make it a cuddly animal.’