25 febbraio - 25 maggio 2009, London
This exhibition, the most significant overview of American artist Roni Horn’s practice to date, will show her earliest works from the mid-1970s alongside pieces from the intervening years and new sculptures. For Roni Horn aka Roni Horn, all the windows in Tate Modern’s west galleries will be uncovered so that Horn’s sculptures can be seen in shifting natural light. Horn has always defined the meaning of her work as the experience that the viewer has with it. In the 1980s she made pairs of copper objects and showed them in different relationships, for instance in two separate rooms. Unable to see both objects simultaneously, the viewer remembers one when encountering the next. Many of Horn’s works feature paired elements which might be similar or identical although the viewer’s experience of each is unique. […] The exhibition will also look at Horn’s engagement with Iceland, a place in which geological identity is continually in flux. Since 1990 she has produced an extraordinary series of books titled To Place with photographs of lava, geysers, glacial rivers, and hot pools which will be presented within a room of cabinets. Adjacent to this display there will be the related photographic installation Pi 1998 which explores geological, animal, and human cycles of life around the Arctic Circle. […] Roni Horn aka Roni Horn has been been organised by Tate Modern and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Info: tel +44 (0)20 78878730 e-mail: pressoffice@tate.org.uk - www.tate.org.uk