Anaïs Horn: High Expectations – Solo exhibition at the ACF New York
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I’m pleased to invite you to the opening of my first institutional solo exhibition in the United States:
Anaïs Horn
High Expectations
Austrian Cultural Forum New York
11 East 52nd Street
Opening
April 16, 6–8pm
Introduction by Anaïs Horn, readings by Wendy Vogel and Katharina Manojlovic (Literature Museum, Vienna), and an artist conversation with Q&A, moderated by Dr. Stephanie Buhmann and Zoe Knable of the ACF, followed by a reception.
On view
April 16–May 31
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Conceived as a site-specific installation in the Frederic Morton Library, High Expectations unfolds as a layered, immersive environment of textile, sound, image, and text.
At its core is the 1931 fabric design Kokain (Cocaine) by Erika von Trauschenfels (Backhausen, Vienna), translated into a large padded floor piece that reconfigures the space as an intimate, physical environment. The installation brings together a polyphonic sound work (in collaboration with Eilert Asmervik), interweaving texts by Austrian women writers of the interwar period — Vicki Baum, Alice Schalek, Joe Lederer, among others — with contemporary responses by Avital Ronell and Wendy Vogel, as well as German-speaking writers Alexandra Bondi de Antoni, Anna Gien, Katharina Manojlovic, and Verena Walzl, alongside two new series of mixed-media works.
The exhibition reflects on the cultural and political transformations of the interwar period while opening a space where female voices resonate and insist, in dialogue with the present.
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