She's meant to bring a contemporary 'everywoman' to the middle of London, 'a walking icon of the everyday, rather than an idol representing the adulation of one.'
Outwardly, the work plays on the history of public equine statuary - all those men in uniform on horseback given pride of place in town squares around the world - but this feels somehow more apocalyptic, darker and maybe even more morbid than that implies.
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