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RONI HORN
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Title | Untitled (Every time you use amemory you change it),
(The safest memories are inthe minds of amnesiacs), 2010 -2012
Media |Solid cast glass
Artist |Roni Horn, *1955, New York, NY, United States
Lives and works in New York, NY, United States
Gallery |Hauser&Wirth
Stand Phone +41 616995044
Hauser&Wirth
CH-8005 Zürich |Limmatstrasse 270
Phone +41 44 4468050 |Fax +41 444468055
zurich@hauserwirth.com |www.hauserwirth.com
Artwork Description |Since the 1980s, Roni Horn has created abody of work, experiential in nature,
which includes installation, sculptures, drawings, and photographs that explore
the mutability ofidentity through perception.
Horn’s installation Untitled (Every time you use amemory you change it), (The
safest memories are inthe minds of amnesiacs) consists ofapair of rounded,
rectangular blocks ofsolid cast glass in different shades of violet. Since making
her first glass work in the mid-1990s, Horn has been fascinated by the paradoxes
contained in this material; the way in which it appears liquid but remains
solid, and how the light cast over its surface changes its identity: tranquil and
serene in the daylight, aglistening gem in the midday sun, ordark and cloudy
at nighttime.
Similar to her earlier installations employing doubling or pairing as ameans of
involving the viewer in an enigma of representation, the location and changing
color of these glass elements within the architectural space creates an experience
that questions the nature ofperception, identity, and memory.
Untitled (Every time you use
amemory you change it),
(The safest memories are inthe
minds of amnesiacs), 2012
Working drawing