A Dream Not Dreamt

This is an artist's booka rendering of Roni Horn's largest show to date, A dream dreamt in a dreaming world is not really a dream but a dream not dreamt is, held at HE Art Museum in Foshan, Shunde, China, in 2023. Horn directed the photo documentation published here with an eye to conveying the experiential aspects of the exhibition within the Tadao Ando-designed museum, a series of circular spaces stacked around a central spiral with daylight throughout. Woven together, in fluid and extended dialogue, are many elements of Horn's practiceincluding drawing, sculpture, photo installation, monologue and artist's books. From the two pure gold sheets of Gold Mats, Pairedfor Ross and Felix, an invitation to the viewer to engage with gold's unmediated materiality; to the ambivalence of self in the paired self-portraits of a.k.a.; and the book series To Place, Horn's ongoing exploration of her experiences of identity and place in IcelandA Dream Not Dreamt draws us as close as possible into the actual presence of her art.

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Roni Horn was born in New York in 1955. Horn's uvre focuses on conceptually-based photography, sculpture, books and drawing. Her recent solo museum exhibitions include those at Kunsthaus Bregenz; Kunsthalle Hamburg; Tate Modern, London; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Fondation Beyeler, Basel; Menil Drawing Institute, Houston; Botin Foundation, Spain; Pola Art Museum, Japan; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; and Louisiana Museum of Art, Denmark. Horn's books with Steidl include bird (2008), aka (2010), Hack Wit (2015), Th Rose Prblm (2016), Remembered Words, A Specimen Concordance (2019), Dogs' Chorus (2019), Remembered Words (2022), LOG (2022), Félix González-Torres Roni Horn (2022), Mother, Wonder (2023), Give Me Paradox or Give Me Death (2024) and The Detour of Identity (2024).