Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
i8 Gallery congratulates Roni Horn on The Detour of Identity, her upcoming exhibition at Denmark’s Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, which will be on view from 2 May until 1 September. This is the first major solo presentation of Horn’s work in the Nordic region and spans sculpture, drawing, and photography.
There is something very powerful about the work of the American artist Roni Horn (born 1955), one of the biggest names and most versatile talents in contemporary art. Seemingly razor-sharp and cool, it juxtaposes humans and landscape, permanence and changeability, obscurity and transparency in a flow of light, water and weather.
Roni Horn’s work essentially revolves around identity. Who am I, what does my gender mean, what language is available for emotions, what is the order of nature versus that of humanity? Her questions are philosophical and fundamental, her answers are the concrete artworks – open to interpretation.
Typically, Roni Horn works in series, which have widely different characters. Sculptures in coloured glass that appear to float but are extremely heavy. Mighty drawings that can resemble conceptual maps where narratives break into pieces. Enigmatic, tantalizing portraits – also of herself, also of bird heads. And throughout it all, there is a special intense relationship with literature – with poets such as Emily Dickinson and Anne Carson – and with Iceland!
