"Everything was sleeping as if the universe were a mistake" express Horn’s exploration of the nature of perception, memory, and identity. The experiential quality of Horn’s glass installations link the relationship of time to space and light.
'Untitled ("My name is Mary Katherine Blackwood. I am eighteen years old, and I live with my sister Constance. I have often thought that with any luck at all I could have been born a werewolf, because the two middle fingers on both my hands are the same length, but I have had to be content with what I had. I dislike washing myself, and dogs, and noise. I like my sister Constance, and Richard Piantagenet, and Amanita phalloides, the deathcup mushroom. Everyone else in my family dead.")' (2013), a sculpture comprised of ten cylindrical cast glass elements rendered in subtly shifting shades of chamomile, chartreuse, and lime.
‘Untitled (“A dream dreamt in a dreaming world is not really a dream, says classical Chinese wisdom, but a dream not dreamt is”)’ (2013), a counterpart of the lime glass sculpture but in subtly shifting shades of violet.
Separated but palpably connected, the two sculptures invite comparison and contemplation of accepted notions of ‘likeness’ and ‘difference’. Reflecting the changing natural light from apertures in the ceiling above, Horn’s sculptures partner with the weather and the constant cycles of time to manifest her binary experimentation with color, weight, and lightness, and solidity and fluidity.
Roni Horn was born in 1955 and lives and works in New York.
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