Roni Horn: Her, Her, Her, & Her
Steidl Publishers
Steidl Verlag
20th December 2004
Germany
General
Non Fiction
709.2
Paperback
124
Width 240mm, Height 240mm
580g
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.
Roni Horn was born in 1955 in New York where she continues to live and work. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1975 and an MFA from Yale University in 1978. Her most recent solo shows were presented at Dia Center for the Arts, NY, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Funacao Serralves, Porto, Centre Pompidou, Paris and Fotomuseum, Winterthur.