Roni Horn and her literary doubles -
Roni Horn and her literary doubles - AWARE -Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions http://www.awarewomenartists.com/en/roni-horn-doubles-litteraires/ Installation view exhibition Roni Horn , De Pont museum, 2016. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. In 1975 Roni Horn (born in 1955, in New York where she lives and works) made her first solo trip to Iceland. Many others would follow, Iceland becoming the place of initiation, apprenticeship and the discovery of forms and landscape. It is where Horn feels she is able to “centre” herself and experience the fact of having an ever-changing identity. The set of eleven books to which she has given the generic title To Place comprises her photographs of Iceland’s landscapes and personal writings. Together they offer an account of the Iceland experience, which is in fact an experience of oneself through displacement and multiplication. The texts in the b...