Perceval is Sarah Lucas's bronze shire horse, cast at life size and placed in Aspire Park where it reads at first glance as a monument to British rural culture transplanted into a Gulf capital. More than two metres wide and four metres long, the work is named after the knight of Arthurian legend and treats the horse as both comic and solemn, a YBA favourite turned public mascot for joggers and families.
Aspire Park's lawns give the sculpture room to breathe, and the setting softens Lucas's usual provocation into something approachable.
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Lucas often works with blunt metaphors; here the joke is gentler. A shire horse in Qatar is already surreal, and placing it in a park full of picnic blankets makes it stranger still.
Come on a Friday morning when the grass is busy and the sculpture becomes a backdrop for a city that does not take itself too seriously.
How to find it
In Aspire Park near Aspire Tower and the Torch Doha. Parking around the park; the sculpture is on the main lawns, visible from several paths.
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