Roni Horn : water, water on the wall, you're the fairest of them all /
"This book is a captivating exploration of Horn's decades-long fascination with water, both as a material and a metaphor. Known for her provocative approach to perception, identity, and the mutability of form, Horn uses water to mirror human experience and emotion. Horn's body of work...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Rizzoli Electa,
2025.
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| Summary: | "This book is a captivating exploration of Horn's decades-long fascination with water, both as a material and a metaphor. Known for her provocative approach to perception, identity, and the mutability of form, Horn uses water to mirror human experience and emotion. Horn's body of work spans photography, cast glass, and installation, consistently returning to the theme of fluidity. Her iconic series You Are the Weather--100 photographs of Icelandic artist Margrét Haraldsdóttir Blöndal submerged in water--reveals how water can both obscure and define identity. Similarly, her "liquid" glass sculptures play with the tension between solidity and fluidity, their colors ranging from turquoise to black. In an era marked by climate change and water scarcity, Horn's works pose urgent questions about water as a shared resource and a symbol of impermanence and survival. This volume not only offers a retrospective of her water-centered works but also connects them to broader global challenges with critical and poetic texts by Nora Burnett Abrams, Jarrett Earnest, Anne Carson, and the artist herself." |
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| Item Description: | "Published on the occasion of the exhibition- Roni Horn : Water, Water on the Wall, You're the Fairest of Them All, MCA Denver, September 12, 2025-January 25, 2026."--Colophon. |
| Physical Description: | 223 pages : color illustrations ; 29 x 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780847875580 084787558X |