Elm green 2012 in Trafalgar square – Powerless Stuructures

I find this an example of irony about our history society but also still, now. Like I have been studying on hegemony and the controlled person through docile bodies (Foucault and Crossely) we see that this sculpture raises the views of how children may see men as more dominant than women. In the ‘hero on horse back’ series we looked at, we found that the vast majority of the men were conquerors. In this image however, a child is riding a rocking horse – imitating and making fun of these past paintings and sculptures.