Roni Horn

photos: Stefan Altenburger © Roni Horn . + Mu­se­um Lud­wig

Roni Horn is more in­ter­est­ed in the vi­su­al pow­er of the quote than its orig­i­nal con­text; in her adap­ta­tion of the struc­ture of Hen­ry’s fa­mous ex­cla­ma­tion, she sub­sti­tutes the word “para­dox” for “lib­er­ty”, thus equ­at­ing the mean­ings of both terms. For Horn, para­dox­es are a way to ac­cess am­bi­gu­i­ty, a qual­i­ty in which things may con­tain their op­po­sites.
Mu­se­um Lud­wig
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