The latest installment in Horn's epic
To Place
series portrays Iceland's mythic Landbrot
In the south of Iceland is Landbrot, a place closer to fairy tales than to science--indeed, a place easy to imagine as the singular source of fairies and elves worldwide. It is easy, too, to imagine the sensual comfort and satisfaction to be found there.
Mother, Wonder
is the eleventh book in Roni Horn's (born 1955) ongoing series
, which she initiated in 1989 and exists only in book form. All the volumes focus on Iceland and the evolving experiences of the artist there; together they form a flowing dialogue addressing the relationship between identity and place. The titles to date in the coveted
encyclopedia are
Bluff Life
(1990),
Folds
(1991),
Lava
(1992),
Pooling Waters
(1994),
Verne's Journey
(1995),
Haraldsdóttir
(1996),
Arctic Circles
(1998),
Becoming a Landscape
(2001),
Doubt Box
(2006) and
Haraldsdóttir, Part Two
(2011).