Roni Horn
Is Infinity an Event?
18 July–31 August 2025
Outvert Art Space, Ísafjörður, Iceland
Is Infinity an Event? at Gallerí Úthverfa / Outvert Art Space includes 12 works from Roni Horn’s series “An elusive Red Figure darting about in the Venetian darkness; a red dwarf burning out beyond Saturn; a nasty gang of runts in red snowsuits acting out in a North American suburb; an attractive young Italian woman dressed in red is stalked by a lesbian serial killer; a village girl, the prettiest you can imagine, in a red velvet hood cut from the belly of a sleeping wolf...,” 2022, a suite of paired pigment prints.
A continuation of Horn’s 2021 work ‘LOG (March 22, 2019 – May 17, 2020)’, ‘An Elusive Red Figure...’ is a collection of outtakes from ‘LOG’ as well as original drawings, including quotations, collages, photographs, casual commentaries, notes on news and weather events and original texts by Horn.
‘LOG,’ which debuted in 2021, is a large-scale installation comprised of 406 individual works on paper. The work was the result of a daily commitment to drawing undertaken by Horn over a period of fourteen months. Drawing has been a defining element of Horn’s artistic practice since the 1980s and ‘An Elusive Red Figure…’ is emblematic of Horn’s relationship with the medium, which she has described as ‘a kind of breathing activity on a daily level.’ Whilst creating the drawings on paper that would become the paired ink jet prints for ‘An Elusive Red Figure…,’ Horn would describe the events of weather, private life and anything notable that came to mind or hand at the time.