{"title":"Roni Horn","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoni Horn’s works explore the interplay between identity, place, and perception, often blending elements of \u003cem\u003escience and nature\u003c\/em\u003e with evocative artistic expression. Her writings and visual projects invite readers to contemplate the fluidity of experience and the shifting nature of the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom poetic reflections to bilingual editions, this collection showcases Horn’s unique voice within \u003cstrong\u003earts and culture\u003c\/strong\u003e, offering thoughtful meditations that challenge and expand traditional boundaries. Readers can expect a blend of intense observation and conceptual insight throughout her diverse body of work.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"island-zombie-by-roni-horn-9780691208145","title":"Island Zombie","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island's treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn's creative work. Through a series of remarkable and poetic reflections, vignettes, episodes, and illustrated essays, \u003ci\u003eIsland Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e distills the artist's lifelong experience of Iceland's natural environment. Together, these pieces offer an unforgettable exploration of the indefinable and inescapable force of remote, elemental places, and provide a sustained look at how an island and its atmosphere can take possession of the innermost self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsland Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e is a meditation on being present. It vividly conveys Horn's experiences, from the deeply profound to the joyful and absurd. Through powerful evocations of the changing weather and other natural phenomena—the violence of the wind, the often aggressive birds, the imposing influence of glaciers, and the ubiquitous presence of water in all its variety—we come to understand the author's abiding need for Iceland, a place uniquely essential to Horn's creative and spiritual life. The dramatic surroundings provoke examinations of self-sufficiency and isolation, and these ruminations summon a range of cultural companions, including El Greco, Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, William Morris, and Rachel Carson. While brilliantly portraying nature's sublime energy, Horn also confronts issues of consumption, destruction, and loss, as the industrial and man-made encroach on the Icelandic wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with musings on a secluded region that perpetually encourages a sense of discovery, \u003ci\u003eIsland Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e illuminates a wild and beautiful Iceland that remains essential and new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIceland was the only place I went without cause, just to be there,\u003c\/b\u003e the New York-based artist Roni Horn writes in \u003ci\u003eIsland Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e, her attempt to explain her powerful affinity for the country. Pieced together from decades of essays, interviews, poetry, and photographs, Horn's latest book is a reflection on the complex beauty of a place that she continues to return to \u003cb\u003ewith migratory insistence and regularity\u003c\/b\u003e. — Chris Allnutt, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA wonderful, beguiling read in which Roni takes us deep into her experience of Iceland.\u003c\/b\u003e — Ben Luke, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Art Newspaper, A Brush With...\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eIsland Zombie\u003c\/i\u003e is a distillation of vignettes and essays on the natural and built environment (swimming pools are as much of a presence here as waterfalls), illustrated with the artist's photographs. Often occupying no more than half a page, these fragmentary glimpses and reflections are indeed like \u003cb\u003esoil samples\u003c\/b\u003e, archived in an elegantly uncluttered volume that evokes Iceland's forlorn emptiness as much as its places and people. — Nancy Campbell, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe way Horn writes is compelling, and able to evoke this authentic feeling of isolation away from the buzz of your everyday life. It's getting absorbed in a book, sure, but perhaps not as you know it. It will make you want to seek out somewhere remote and fascinating to travel like never before. — Will Lennox, \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVogue Australia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46854620315884,"sku":"9780691208145","price":99.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/89b7865106de22120407418dca71d671_e9a82f72-cb61-4598-867a-5f7b90ab0e48.jpg?v=1759267435"},{"product_id":"island-zombie-by-roni-horn-9780691248622","title":"Island Zombie","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContemporary artist Roni Horn first visited Iceland in 1975 at the age of nineteen, and since then, the island's treeless expanse has had an enduring hold on Horn's creative work. 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Through powerful evocations of the changing weather and other natural phenomena—the violence of the wind, the often aggressive birds, the imposing influence of glaciers, and the ubiquitous presence of water in all its variety—we come to understand the author's abiding need for Iceland, a place uniquely essential to Horn's creative and spiritual life. The dramatic surroundings provoke examinations of self-sufficiency and isolation, and these ruminations summon a range of cultural companions, including El Greco, Emily Dickinson, Judy Garland, Wallace Stevens, Edgar Allan Poe, William Morris, and Rachel Carson. While brilliantly portraying nature's sublime energy, Horn also confronts issues of consumption, destruction, and loss, as the industrial and man-made encroach on Icelandic wilderness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFilled with musings on a secluded region that perpetually encourages a sense of discovery, \u003cem\u003eIsland Zombie\u003c\/em\u003e illuminates a wild and beautiful Iceland that remains essential and new.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e'Iceland was the only place I went without cause, just to be there,' the New York-based artist Roni Horn writes in \u003cem\u003eIsland Zombie\u003c\/em\u003e, her attempt to explain her powerful affinity for the country. Pieced together from decades of essays, interviews, poetry and photographs, Horn's latest book is a reflection on the complex beauty of a place that she continues to return to 'with migratory insistence and regularity.' 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In this series she literally engages in remembering words and pairs them with dots, adding the words to the dots like footnotes or captions, creating a kind of personal, even autobiographical form.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe combination of the dots—which are sometimes arranged in colour-coordinated rows, on other drawings random and overlapping, wild and out of control—with the words creates unexpected relations and meanings, endless strings of associations, absurd and beautiful at the same time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47432281817324,"sku":"9783869309965","price":165.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9783869309965.jpg?v=1774555485"},{"product_id":"roni-horn-weather-reports-you-2022-by-roni-horn-9783958299108","title":"Roni Horn: Weather Reports You (2022)","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Everyone has a story about the weather. This may be the single thing each of us holds in common. And though the weather varies greatly from here to there, it is, ultimately, one weather that we share. Small talk everywhere has occasioned the popular distribution of the weather. Some say talking about the weather is talking about oneself. And with each passing day, the weather increasingly becomes ours, if not us. \u003ci\u003eWeather Reports You\u003c\/i\u003e is one beginning of a collective self-portrait,\" writes Roni Horn, \"a metaphor for the physical, metaphysical, political, social and moral energy of a person and a place\".\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis book is a new edition of the original \u003ci\u003eWeather Reports You\u003c\/i\u003e of 2007, a gathering of oral reports on the weather made on location in Iceland, accompanied by snapshots taken at the time and place of each interview.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWeather is the key paradox of our time.\u003c\/i\u003e - Roni Horn\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCo-published with Artangel, London.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455681544428,"sku":"9783958299108","price":60.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/41fFUwvF_AL._SL1500.jpg?v=1774793502"},{"product_id":"th-rose-prblm-by-roni-horn-9783958292710","title":"Th Rose Prblm","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA drawing in \u003cem\u003eTh Rose Prblm\u003c\/em\u003e cuts together two drawings, each with one of two phrases. Composing these two phrases in their various iterations: \"Rose is a rose is a rose\" or \"a rose is a rose is a rose\" with \"come up smelling like roses\" or \"coming up smelling like a rose\", etc., leads to all kinds of nonsense. But it also leads to another sense. I found a lot of humour here, some of it pretty dumb.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eComposing these phrases into all the possible outcomes became a metaphor for identity. There are 48 drawings and it's one work. Cumulatively, the shades of meaning obtain a complexity and range that stand in for the mutable, changeable nature of identity. 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