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Rebecca Horn, “Einhorn”

Described by Horn as possessing “consciousness electrically impassioned,” a performer meanders through a landscape, moving in and out of focus. “Nothing could stop her trance-like journey, in competition with every tree and cloud,” Horn recounted from her performance. Before making this work, the artist was bedbound in a hospital for almost a year while she recovered from lung poisoning and mourned the death of her parents. During this period of extreme isolation, she began to design a series of wearable sculptures: unwieldy, fantastical prosthetic extensions to her body, including Einhorn. Simultaneously referencing the possibilities and limitations of the human body, the work articulates Horn’s yearning for new ways of moving through the world.