Roni Horn: Seizure of Hope at Hauser and Wirth

A few weeks ago, Roni Horn, 70, was removed from her flight just before takeoff from the US to Germany after a male steward asked her to adjust her seat and she politely refused to move it any further; the flight was stopped and Horn was escorted off, where she gave a report to stunned police.

She went back home to the island in Maine where she lives and cancelled the first part of her European trip. Two weeks later she flew directly to London in time for her first solo exhibition here in a decade, Seizure of Hope at Hauser and Wirth. Horn rarely answers questions directly and likes ambiguity; her art is serenely anti-authoritarian, revelling in the absurd and the contradictory, mutable in materials including photography, drawing, sculpture and film, and possessing a presence without ostentation.

United Kingdom, London

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