Roni Horn interviewed by Dayanita Singh
Roni Horn interviewed by Dayanita Singh. Published by Louisiana Channel, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark 2013.
Description of the Video by Louisiana Channel:
“‘I’ve always preferred not to be anything.’ American artist Roni Horn is interviewed by her fan, Indian artist Dayanita Singh. The two acclaimed artists share a love of book making, and of the unique way that photography merges reality and fiction.
In this interview Roni Horn introduces Dayanita Singh to her projects ‘a.k.a.’, ‘bird’, and ‘drawings’, and explains some of the thoughts behind them. Horn talks about identity, gender and sexuality, and wanting to escape defenition. How the mink is a “homicidal maniac”. How ravens have a lot of personality. How she likes the idea of a mask which is identical to the original. And she explains why she likes to have everything in pairs: “When you have one, you have one. When you have two, you have the space between, plus, you’ve got difference. And difference is where everything opens up.”
Roni Horn (b.1955) is an American visual artist and writer from New York. Her work encompasses sculpture, drawing, photography, language, and site-specific installations. Since her first encounter with Iceland as a young arts graduate visiting on a fellowship from Yale, 30 years ago, the work of Roni Horn has been hugely inspired by the island’s singular geography, geology, climate and culture. (…)”
The fine art photography book presented in the above video is:
Bird
by Philip Larratt-Smith and Roni Horn
Publisher: Steidl; First Edition edition (October 30, 2008)
ISBN-10: 3865216692
ISBN-13: 978-3865216694