Rebecca Horn: Body, Machine, and Metamorphosis

Rebecca Horn1944– | German | Installations; Video

Horn is the creator of highly original installations. Some involve machinery that may drip blood-like paint, or flap wings, and are generally surprising or unpredictable. Her work is compulsive viewing, often creating disturbing or compelling trains of thought (which is what she is after). Many of the ideas, perfected, create many breakdowns.

Rebecca Horn, White Body Fan, 1972. Photograph. Rebecca Horn Collection. © 2019 Rebecca Horn/ProLitteris, Zürich.

KEY WORKS: The Hydra Forest Performing Oscar Wilde, 1988 (San Francisco: Museum of Modern Art); Concert for Anarchy, 1990 (London: Tate Collection)