Hack Wit Roni Horn

The art of Roni Horn (born 1955) often revolves around language, poetry and literature. She works with literary texts, by authors such as the French philosopher H�l�ne Cixous and the Canadian poet Anne Carson. This volume shows a series of drawings, <i>Hack Wit</i>, developed between 2013 and 2015, in which Horn cuts up English figures of speech such as clich�s and proverbs. For each work, the artist made two watercolors of a different proverb, cut them apart and then combined them into one. The result is a wild poetry that dances between meaning and absurdity, recognition and novelty. Anne Carson contributes a text, "Hack Gloss," in response to the <i>Hack Wit</i> drawings.