'public sculpture'

- Finally a woman on a horse!

My youngest daughter shouted when seeing a female figure riding a horse. It was not for real, the horse and the woman were frozen in time and movement. A woman or a girl riding a horse is otherwise a very usual sight, at least in Sweden.

Here they were casted as a sculpture of bronze.

Placed in a prominent parade street in an enormous roundabout.

Kings and men on horses are common stuff everywhere and all these monuments are telling us a lot about power relations between gender in the history.

 

On our go-East-and-South-Europe-tour during Summer we had a break in Ludwigslust and turned into the parade-street aiming at the castle. It is a very broad symmetrical street, divided into parts for driving, walking and riding. The Linden-trees also had their place in this avenue. And, there she turns up, riding side-saddle. Her hair falls freely over the thin vest and the long skirt wraps itself around her legs. No power-symbols or attributes around. The placing is a powerful factor.

 

Ludwigslust also have 24 fountains called “the Nuns” in the baroque castle garden and a Hofdamenalle, translated to Ladies-In-Waiting-Avenue in a garden-presentation. A court ladies avenue.

 

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