Rotation in the Crosswind 2013

Curator: Rebecca Horn's "Rotation in the Crosswind" at the Harvard Art Museums, really strikes me. What is your first impression? Editor: It feels like a storm viewed from the inside, all fragile lines and scattered energy contained in a quiet space. A sense of vulnerability. Curator: Horn is so interesting because she started with performance and kinetic sculpture, and you see that energy channeled into these drawings. It's about movement, about bodies in space. Editor: So, it's less a depiction of a storm and more a map of forces? An attempt to capture something inherently ephemeral? It’s beautiful how she used those drippy marks and light washes to almost let the marks fall where they may. Curator: Exactly! She's capturing an experience rather than an image. A sense of the body buffeted by unseen forces, a very human, physical experience. Editor: It gives me a lot to think about. Something about how we are all, at our core, kinetic and vulnerable.