Roni Horn: Weather Reports You (2022)

Description

"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

Roni Horn was born in New York in 1955. Horn's oeuvre 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, Fundacio Joan Miro, 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).

Weather Reports You is published on the occasion of the opening in May 2007 of Vatnasafn - Library of Water, a long-term Artangel commission by Roni Horn based in a library building in Stykkisholmur, Iceland/The first attempts to record meteorological conditions in Iceland in a methodical way were initiated from this site in the mid 19th century/