Continuity and reinscription:

Drifts of the living in the performances Los caballos no mienten by Eduardo Navarro and Que le cheval vive en moi by Marion Laval-Jeantet

Abstract

This article reflects on the performances Los Caballos no mienten by Eduardo Navarro and Que le cheval vive en moi by Marion Laval-Jeantet as artistic interventions that question the ontological limits of human and animal bodies. This analysis proposes that both artists establish a relationship with the horse that subverts the separation between the human and the animal to display a space of indeterminacy of the living. After considering each performance separately, I carry out a comparative work around them in order to understand to what extent they give rise to positive epistemologies, which allow us to think about the lines of continuity between one and the other way of life. Then, I reflect on the limits of such interventions as artistic objects to conclude the article with a reflection on the biopolitical potential of the referred works.