Roni Horn Reihenfolge der Bücher

“What do you know about water? Only that it’s everywhere differently.” Roni Horn In 2000 Roni Horn published Another Water, an examination of the water of the River Thames through extensively footnoted photographs. This new edition of Another Water includes a new edit of the photographic aspect of the work. Water is a central theme for Horn: as a component of weather, a defining feature of her beloved Iceland, and as a beautiful, changeable element on which life depends. Another Water is an ode to the substance of water but also to its impact on identity and imagination: in Horn’s words, “You can’t talk about water without talking about oneself.” Roni Horn was born in New York in 1955 where she continues to live and work. Horn’s solo exhibition includes those at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, Museum Winterthur and Tate Modern in London. Books are an important medium for Horn, both as a means of distributing her art and as exhibited objects. Her publications with Steidl include Cabinet of (2004), A Kind of You (2007) and Roni Horn aka Roni Horn (2009).

In this collection of 120 black-and-white photos, Roni Horn takes us on a journey through a locker room in Reykjavik, Iceland. With minimal movement between the camera and subject in succeeding frames, and through the use of a slow-shutter technique, this finely crafted body of work provokes the viewer to contemplate the subtleties of each image. A blur behind a portal suggests that someone else is in the locker room with the viewer. Room numbers, open and closed doors, and intersecting hallways give clues to the surroundings, and as we turn each page of the book, we sense the subtle shifting of time and space in photographs that reflect a sculptor’s attention to the details of surfaces, repetition, and form.

This work is about the phenomena of appearance and disappearance. The book shows 36 head-shots of a clown. If mutability of appearance is integral to the phenomenon of the cloud – since dissolution or erasure is inevitable – the converse is proposed for the clown.