{"data":{"id":"12996","type":"artwork","attributes":{"id":12996,"topgoose_id":21869,"portfolio_id":null,"tms_id":12996,"title":"Ellipsis (II)","display_artist_text":"Roni Horn","display_date":"1998","accession_number":"2001.13a-lll","dimensions":"Overall: 96 × 95 15/16 × 7/16 in. (243.8 × 243.7 × 1.1 cm)","medium":"Sixty-four iris prints mounted on Sintra","department":"collection","classification":"Photographs","credit_line":"Purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, and the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee","is_virtual":false,"is_portfolio":false,"portfolio_tms_id":null,"portfolio":null,"edition":null,"publication_info":"","description":"\u003cp\u003eRoni Horn, \u003cem\u003eEllipsis (II)\u003c/em\u003e, 1998. Sixty-four iris prints mounted on Sintra, overall: 96 × 95 15/16 × 7/16 in. (243.8 × 243.7 × 1.1 cm). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; purchase, with funds from the Photography Committee, Anne and Joel Ehrenkranz, and the Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Committee 2001.13a-lll. © Roni Horn\u003c/p\u003e","object_label":"\u003cp\u003eFor \u003ci\u003eEllipsis (II),\u003c/i\u003e Roni Horn photographed the changing rooms of a public swimming pool in Reykjavík, Iceland, a country to which she has traveled regularly since 1975. A labyrinth of rooms, hallways, and doors with peepholes, the changing area is covered with white tiles that curve around corners to form a single continuous surface. The doors are specially designed to close off one room while opening another. As a result, the architecture obscures boundaries between inside and outside. Horn mirrors this spatial effect in \u003ci\u003eEllipsis (II) \u003c/i\u003ethrough a dynamic arrangement of sixty-four tile-shaped images of doors, hallways, and walls. Through repetition, inversion, and scale–the work measures 8 x 8 feet–she invites the viewer to look across and through the expansive surface, initiating a voyeuristic journey encouraged by the mazelike architecture itself. As Horn commented on the viewing experience: “In \u003ci\u003eEllipsis \u003c/i\u003eyou don’t really see what you’re looking at until you’ve seen it all, until you’ve looked at all of the sixty-four photographs. In the cumulative differences and similarities of the images and in the search it poses–the experience of the original space unfolds.”\u003c/p\u003e","ai_alt_text":null,"alt_text":null,"visual_description":null,"on_view":false,"created_at":"2017-08-31T10:52:33.000-04:00","updated_at":"2026-02-06T12:01:54.061-05:00","images":[]},"relationships":{"artists":{"data":[{"id":"3334","type":"artist"}]}}}}