For this Artists at Work, ISCP artist-in-residence Anaïs Horn will be joined by writer and curator Wendy Vogel. Horn will present on her practice and speak with Vogel, who has contributed texts to several of Horn’s projects, about collaborative processes, spectral presences, book-making, and the intertwining of feminist narratives with biographical and autobiographical themes. They will also discuss Horn’s multidisciplinary approaches across image, text, sound, and installation.

Anaïs Horn is an Austrian artist based in Paris and Lunigiana, Italy whose multidisciplinary practice explores the tension between presence and absence, tracing how memories and (her)stories resonate through the spectral presence of objects and spaces. Horn frequently introduces elements of illusion and mystery, situating her work within the space of the in-between. In 2022 she co-founded the publishing house Drama Books, and in 2023, she co-founded the artist-run space Cabanon in Paris. Recent solo and two-person presentations include Camera Austria, Graz; Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria; MLZ Art Dep, Trieste; Galeria RGR, Mexico City; Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna; NADA Projects, New York; and her upcoming exhibitions include National Library of Kosovo, Pristina and Austrian Cultural Forum New York. Monographs of her work have been published by DCV, Berlin; Meta/Books, Amsterdam; Edition Camera Austria, Graz; Edition Fotohof, Salzburg, and Drama Books, Paris.

Wendy Vogel is a writer and critic and occasional curator based in Brooklyn. Vogel’s research interests include legacies of feminist and identity-based practice, as well as the performative and ethical questions around contemporary art production and criticism. A former editor at Flash Art International, Modern Painters and Art in America, she has contributed to art-agenda, Art Review, BOMB, Brooklyn Rail, frieze, Kaleidoscope, Mousse and The New York Times, among other publications. Vogel has organized or co-organized curatorial projects at venues including the Hessel Museum at the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, Bad Ems, Germany; The Kitchen, New York; and Abrons Arts Center, New York.

This program is supported by Federal Ministry for Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport of Austria; Styrian Provincial Government Department 9 Culture, Europe, Sports; Hartfield Foundation; James Rosenquist Foundation; Joe Sultan; Lèna Saltos; Milton and Sally Avery Arts Foundation; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council; Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso; New York City Council District 34; New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature; Dr. Samar Maziad; Sarah Jones; van Beuren Charitable Foundation; William Talbott Hillman Foundation; and Woodman Family Foundation.