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Roni Horn Library of Water
‘The Library’ is many things at once, but at heart it’s an archive: housed in an old, modern-styled library in the small, western coastal town of Stykkishólmur, it comprises twenty-four glistening tubes of water which descend from the ceiling like a phalanx of stalactites and contain hundreds of litres of water tapped from the island’s melting glaciers. A pale, khaki-coloured version of Horn’s signature rubber matting covers the floor to provide a ground for them, and incised into it are words in English and Icelandic which might almost describe both people and weather (“foul, torrid, sultry…”). via…
This piece (because I know she will love it) is for Dana who finally got back from Tokyo! And I do, I love it… especially since the words etched into the rubber floor mats will affect the molecular structure of each separate tube of water…
