Untitled ("Sometimes I think I resemble myself too
much. I have always been someone else...")

Solid cast glass with as-cast surfaces
2 parts, 56.2 x 76.2 x 91.4 cm each
2010-2012

Roni Horn

This work belongs to a series of solid cast glass sculptures that the artist has been working on since the mid-1990s. In this series, molten stained glass is gradually shaped in a mold over the course of several months of slow annealing, leaving the mold's rough translucent imprint on the sculpture's sides and bottom. In contrast, the top surfaces are flame-polished and smooth, drawing the viewer's eye to the sculpture's transparent and bright interior, as if staring at a pool of water.

The material and physical properties of these glass sculptures were one of Horn's main focuses. The two parts of the sculpture are placed separately on the floor in different layers of blue, reminiscent of Icelandic landscapes - one of the artist's inspirations since the 1970s. Horn's sculptures blend the documentation of time, landscape, and experience to present the experience as such - and the sculptures named after them - as familiar, yet extremely mutable and fleeting.

Horn often incorporates notions of doubling into his work, and the title of this piece conveys an idea of self-reflection and self-perception that successfully reverberates between two seemingly identical sculptures and invites the viewer to observe the nuances and variations. In many of Horn's works, there is a constant recurrence and reiteration of literary themes, which is also reflected in her glass sculptures. In this work, "Sometimes I think I resemble myself too much. I have always been someone else..." is a quote from the writer Romain Gary and emphasizes themes of similarity and difference, the mutability of form, comparison, and contemplation.

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