Turin Horse: Falling into the Void, 2024-ongoing.
Painting series, acrylic on canvas.
Presented at CristelBallroomGallery, Amsterdam, 17-18 May, as part of ‘Chop Chop’.

Visit the page Turin Horse: Physicality of Wellbeing (2025).
Visit the page about Turin Horse, photographic research project (2020-2022).
Visit the page Turin Horse: Hydrtherapy (2023).

There are creatures we carry within us – silent, powerful, often unseen – that gallop beneath the surface of our consciousness. Sometimes they burst forth without warning, other times they have been there all along, shaping us slowly into being. In ‘Turin Horse: Falling into the Void’, the falling horse emerges as a visual metaphor for these hidden internal forces – the anxiety, vertigo, and existential disorientation that disrupt our sense of balance and Self.

Set against a stark sky blue background, the horse is caught midair, suspended between flight and fall, between control and surrender. This image builds on falling as a profound and unsettling state: not simply a loss of physical footing, but a disruption of being – an experience that fractures the illusion of mastery and opens a space for vulnerability and transformation. Turin Horse: Falling into the Void traces the subtle internal movements we call anxiety – not as states to be defeated or denied, but as complex conditions to be acknowledged, accompanied, and gently cared for. 

The falling horse in this painting becomes a mirror to our own private collapses and transformations. It reminds us that sometimes surrender to the fall is not a failure, but a radical opening—a necessary step toward healing, growth, and renewed becoming. In embracing the play of control and chaos, fear and trust, rupture and repair, we find a way to ride alongside our inner turmoil rather than being trampled by it.

*The title ‘Turin Horse’ refers to Nietzsche’s 1889 breakdown upon witnessing a horse’s suffering, using the horse as a metaphor for the triggers and challenges we face in society. Since 2020, the ongoing project has explored the hidden narratives of wellbeing and anxiety, reflecting on the subtle forces that unsettle us and how we might learn to care for what frightens and shapes us into being.