“Movement also has another root in the art of Sophie Dickens: Eadweard Muybridge and his studies performed with subsequent shots. In the second half of the nineteenth century Muybridge experimented with capturing the motion of the horse which until then was believed to lift all four legs off the ground during gallop. Thanks to his 24 cameras placed parallel along the racing track of the steed, Muybridge discovers that this is not the case. His sequences dedicated to movement influenced many artists, from Degas to Valéry, from the cubists of the 1910s to the kinetic-programmed art of the 1960s, up to Francis Bacon, another artist much loved by Sophie Dickens…”