A couple of weeks ago I saw the Roni Horn exhibition at Tate Modern.
This was a very sensual, dramatic and modern exhibition. It is difficult to say why this is so captivating, at first it seems almost ordinary, but slowly the more you look, the more it draws you.
The guardian art critic described one famous exhibit / room quite brilliantly
You can never fish in the same river twice. In the last room, I am surrounded by 110 portraits of the same young woman. She looks directly at me. Some images are colour, others black and white. Horn photographed her as they travelled between Iceland's hot springs and pools; in each, the woman immersed herself. Her expression changes with Iceland's notoriously fickle weather. The fleeting emotions are constantly in motion: torrid, steamy, frosty, brutal.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/feb/26/roni-horn-tate-modern
There is also a nice gallery of images on the Guardian's website
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/feb/25/roni-horn-tate-modern?picture=343786286
One aspect of her art work and this gallery is the way it is inter-dispersed with quote of poetry from Emily Dickerson:
Faith is Doubt
these words are transformed into a modern sculpture, not abstract but simple and elegantly solid plastic letters embedded in aluminium bars.
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