Feed me. Cheat me. Eat me.
Licking, tasting, biting, kissing, sucking, spitting, sighing, whispering, swallowing, taming. Care and betrayal blend as realism and fiction are woven into each other in Rafa's newest video installation, which she sees the mouth as a vessel for both sensuality and domination.
The film was shot at a facility where racehorses are trained.
Here, she investigates the thin line between love, captivity, control and the undoubted value of consent.
No matter how much affection you give an animal, you always force it into a relationship based on domination.
Can we assume that animals always love us back?
A long held assumption has been that animals do not possess self-awareness, intelligence or feelings as they can not communicate through human language.
In this work, Rafa uses the horse's mouth to symbolise that inability.
