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Roni Horn: Weather Reports You (2022)

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Weather Reports You is a collection of oral weather reports from Iceland, paired with photographs taken at the exact locations and moments of each interview. Roni Horn presents weather as a shared human experience, a metaphor reflecting physical, metaphysical, political, social, and moral dimensions. This 2022 edition revisits the original 2007 project, offering a collective self-portrait through the lens of climate narratives, grounded in the unique Icelandic setting.
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Ideal for readers interested in contemporary art, cultural studies, environmental narratives, and those fascinated by Iceland’s unique landscape and social history.

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"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. Weather Reports You 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".

This book is a new edition of the original Weather Reports You 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.

Weather is the key paradox of our time. - Roni Horn

Co-published with Artangel, London.

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Published to coincide with the opening of Vatnasafn - Library of Water in Stykkisholmur, Iceland, this book complements a significant long-term art commission by Horn. It reflects on the historical context of Icelandic meteorological documentation dating back to the 19th century, adding cultural and methodical depth to the project.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783958299108

Publisher: Steidl Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 24 November 2022

Country: Germany

Imprint: Steidl Verlag

Illustration: 76 Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 140.0mm

Height: 203.0mm

Weight: 400g

Pages: 196

About the Author

Roni Horn was born in New York in 1955. Horn's Ε“uvre focuses on conceptually-based photography, sculpture, books and drawing. Recent solo exhibitions include those at Tate Modern, Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Pompidou, Kunsthalle Bregenz, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Kunsthalle Basel, FundaciΓ³ Joan MirΓ³, De Pont Foundation, Fondation Beyeler and the Menil Drawing Institute. Horn's books with Steidl include bird (2008), aka (2010), Hack Wit (2015), Th Rose Prblm (2016), Remembered Words, A Specimen Concordance (2019) and Dogs' Chorus (2019).

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