Words and images are my currency. Words accompanying images, snippets of ideas evoking response. So it is unsurprising that I’m drawn to artists like Roni Horn, for whom words make up such a significant part of the visual representation. Further, the interrogation of image and gender, how we present ourselves to be perceived, how we do perceiving.
The collection of Roni Horn’s work in The Louisiana exhibition is striking, benefitting from the winding hallways and rooms of the space itself. As the exhibition unfolds, images and motifs repeat, return, morph. . and this reflects our own experience of identity. We think we have changed, but then learn we have not.
In particular I enjoyed the photographs of water accompanied by text and observation in the “Still Water” series; mundane words, yet wildly compelling in their meaninglessness and inquiry into how our minds work, what we remember.
There is a dark whimsy to Horn’s work which really resonated for me. Brilliant stuff.