‘An endless silent scream feeling’: artist Roni Horn on horror, hope and landing in a lake in Iceland

She’s famous for sculptures that seem both solid and liquid. Now she has created a show amidst the ‘downfall of America’ inspired by a phrase from a comedy routine that came to obsess her

A few weeks ago, Roni Horn, 70, was removed from her flight, just before takeoff from the US to Germany. A male steward was so irritated when he asked her to adjust her seat – and she politely refused to move it any further, since it was already as upright as she could get it – that he had the flight stopped and Horn was escorted off, where she gave a report to stunned police. “I was in business class, just for context,” she says.

The artist and writer went back home, to the island on Maine where she lives, and cancelled the first part of her European trip. That was two weeks ago. Then she flew directly to London, in time for her first solo exhibition here in a decade – Seizure of Hope at Hauser and Wirth.
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