California-born, Brooklyn-based artist Rebecca Horne has taught fine art photography at the California College of the Arts and Rutgers University and has written on art, photography and science at Wired magazine, CNN, and the National Academy of Sciences, among others.
Her photography has appeared in publications including Tèlèrama Magazine and Adbusters and her recent book Pseudologia. Exhibition history includes solo exhibitions at Galerie Confluence in Nantes, France, Roebling Hall Gallery in New York City, the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, and group shows including City Hall in San Francisco with SF Arts Commission, and the Recontres Internationales de la Photographie d’Arles, France. She holds a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and a MFA from the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
About Pseudologia – words by Rebecca Horne:
The book Pseudologia documents temporary sculptures, mini performances and tableaus created in my home studio in Brooklyn, NY. It is a study in everyday metaphysics — and a collection of completely unscientific experiments that attempt to reach for something beyond.
Pseuduologia comes from the term pseudologia fantastica, which is a kind of pathological lying. I think the title makes fun of my impulse to insist on interventions of the imagination, to excavate the mundane. I also like the word “logia” which refers to language and speech–sometimes I think the pictures are almost like a collection of letters that form words as they are linked together.
The photographs are iterations of shapes I’ve come back to again and again like the circle, which can be a moon, a sphere or a hole, or both. The vase is another object that appears again and again in my work. A vessel is always emptying and filling again, always becoming, never fixed. I like to think of the vessel as an artefact, carrying information from a lost place. By another meaning a vessel is a boat, traveling from one place to another.
