If you believe Hollywood the West was opened by one man alone in his struggles, his only friend his horse. Free Rein, which opens Saturday Jan 19, 2-4 p.m. at the RMG, is an installation by Feminist Land Art Retreat (FLAR), which through the use of video upends the Western film mythology from patriarch astride his steed to one of interdependence and mutual survival. The video triptych follows the relationship between a number of women and their horses.

FLAR launched in 2010 with an ad and since then has had a run of exhibitions including No Man’s Land, ACUD Gallery, Berlin; Heavy Flow: The Re-Release, Ginerva Gambino, Cologne; and Duty Free, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Düsseldorf, as well as Free Rein which opened initially in Vancouver at the Audian Gallery.