Mimi Thompson: There seems to be a romantic notion in your work—a search for purity of form, of an ideal state.
Roni Horn: I don’t know about purity.
MT: Few of us do.
RH: I see these objects that I produce as existing in a very impure world, fraught with entropy and dirt. But the impurity does not come from the dirt. That is, the world is also fraught with Plato, so to speak. (The world is a kind of hybrid or amalgamation of these forms. An impurity with pure elements.)
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I always felt that I could never get up off the floor, I could never do the turns, I could never do enough pirouettes, I could never sail…as a dancer because I was always being reeled back in on this fish line.
—Joan Tewkesbury, BOMB 5/Spring 1983
It’s All in Your Head: Frank Thurston Green reviews the Andrzej Zulawski retrospective at BAMcinématek on the BOMBlog.
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