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Konik, 2010, oplage 22
Ontwerp in samenwerking met Atelier 152 Mijn scriptie HKU Juni 2010 ' Diaspora & Ecologie ' Scriptie_MariaDabrowski_2010 Download
overige bronnen: http://www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2011/02/21/pvv-satire-wekt-woede-geert-wilders/
Documentaire Natura 2000 (De slag om Brussel) VPRO

In 1982 the Konik, a semi-wild horse of polish origin, was introduced in the Dutch landscapes.
The Konik Horse was chosen because of its direct linear derive of the Tarpan. (an extin-
guished European wild horse). Heck cattle and Konik horses now fill the ecological niches of
primeval species that once roamed the deltas and marshland areas.
Nature organizations try to breed the horse back to its ancestor, by means of a strict natu-
ralizing process. Ironically, during this striving to a self-reliant Ecosystem, every horse
gets his own name, have to be timid to people passing by and have to meet to all the other
behavioral and physical requirements. If they do not, they end up to the slaughterhouse,
(on your plate or for the lions in the zoo)
I photographed 22 Konik horses in the Stadswaard in Nijmegen (the netherlands).
I approached this subject on purpose in a Utopian visual way; the animal as a part
of ‘free’ nature. Contrasting to this, I used all the information I could get about those
horses, this all coming together in the book; Konik.(2010)
70x70 cm Dibond Per paard; oplage 6 price: 450 euro(incl.BTW)