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Portrait of an Image: a portfolio by Roni Horn.
Artforum International, October, 2005 by Sedofsky, Lauren
The underlying indeterminacy of the physical world, and perhaps all the more so our experience of it, reserves a rebuke for any kind of graphic fixity. It is a rebuke that Roni Horn has embraced, interrogated, and accommodated in an especially diverse body of work. Nowhere, though, does the figure of mutability appear quite so enigmatic as in her photo-based portrait series.
That the effects derive from an element in some sense external to the multiple takes should come as no surprise; Horn's sets, series, and multiwork installations invariably involve a repercussive relay of ...
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