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Roni Horn
Weather Reports You
“Everyone has a story about the weather. This may be the single thing each of us holds in common. And though the
weather varies greatly from here to there, it is, ultimately, one weather that we share. Small talk everywhere has
occasioned the popular distribution of the weather. Some say talking about the weather is talking about oneself. And
with each passing day, the weather increasingly becomes ours, if not us. Weather Reports You is one beginning of a
collective self-portrait.” Roni Horn
Over the past two years Roni Horn has been working with a small team in the southwest of Iceland gathering personal
testimonies from people talking about the weather. These “weather reports” include descriptions, reflections, memories
and stories based on experiences of the weather that range from the matter-of-fact to the marvellous. The different
nuances and usages of language suggest that the weather is not just a matter of meteorological conditions but is, in
Roni Horn’s words, “a metaphor for the physical, metaphysical, political, social and moral energy of a person and a
place”.
Roni Horn was born in New York where she continues to live and work. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include
the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Fundacao Serralves,
Porto; Fotomuseum Winterthur; and Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her recent publications, Dictionary of Water, This is
Me, This is You, Cabinet of, If on a Winter’s Night…, Her, Her, Her, & Her, Wonderwater (Alice Offshore), Index
Cixous (Cix Pax), and Rings of Lispector (Agua Viva) have all been published by Steidl.
Weather Reports You is published on the occasion of the opening in May 2007 of Vatnasafn / Library of Water, a longterm
Artangel commission by Roni Horn based in a library building in Stykkisholmur, Iceland. The first attempts to
record meteorological conditions in Iceland in a methodical way were initiated from this site in the mid-nineteenth
century.
Co-published with Artangel, London.
Roni Horn
Weather Reports You
Introduction and book design by Roni Horn
100 interviews with people from the
Snaefellsnes Peninsula, Iceland
320 pages with 100 color plates
5.7 x 8 in. / 14.5 x 20.5 cm
Clothbound hardcover with dust jacket
$ 42.00 / £ 24.00 / € 35.00
ISBN: 978-3-86521-388-4
PostScript Bild
(9783865213884)
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