Roni Horn

A new book by Roni Horn, Herubrei at Home is a collection of photographs of the landscape of home in Iceland. Herubrei, Icelands much-loved mountain, and Stfan V. Jnsson, who painted the mountain throughout his life, are at the center of this work. His paintings of Herubrei have found their way into the homes of Icelanders around the country making it the cultural and geologic leitmotiv and mascot of the island. Roni Horn was born in New York where she continues to live and work. Recent solo exhibitions of her work include the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Muse dArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Fundacao Serralves, Porto; Fotomuseum Winterthur and Centre Pompidou, Paris. Her recent publications, Dictionary of Water, This is Me, This is You, Cabinet of, If on a Winters Night, Her, Her, Her, & Her, Wonderwater (Alice Offshore), Index Cixous (Cix Pax), Doubt Box (Book IX of To Place) have all been published by Steidl.