Horn's pieces speak to explore the themes of sexuality, human vulnerability and emotional fragility (artfilm). Her references to the human body and the human soul are reoccurring in many of her pieces. Rebecca Horn is more recognized to bring a fascination with transformation, a loss or failure to attain, a sense of fragility and survival, and the passage of time itself into her performance pieces (Wilkins, Karen). She brings to her works reoccurring references and themes like the eggs, the pendulums, the birds, the alchemical fluids, the allusions of hermetic transformation, and utopian quest according to Wilkins.

Almost all of Rebecca Horn's pieces are made from "non-art" materials, partly of choice and partly of necessity.

Horn constructed Painting Machine, which incorporated a parade of revolving shoes rotating on a turn table, while from up above, two long brushes, attached to a dipping mechanism, would submerge the paint brushes in cups of pigments and drip all over the satin shoes below. The mechanics of the piece depicted the combination of machinery and natural energy (gravity), which is similar to that of her earlier piece, Paradiso.

In Rebecca Horn's performance pieces, she pays a close attention to details when construction her exhibitions. The element of timing is crucial in all her pieces, while also each individual performance piece is connected with the element of time. At her best, Horn catches the unawares. While you watch one piece "perform" or wait to see how or when or if it will come to life you will take a glimpse at another in brief motion out of the corner of your eye, or hear the sound of its falling back after its exertions. While being distracted, the piece you were concentrating on has had its moment of action and is once more at rest. According to Horn, it's very much like life; timing counts for a lot. It was both entertaining and interesting to watch exhibition visitors change the rhythm of their attention, following the dictates of Horn's measurement of time, a rhythm regular but widely spaced for individual works, yet cumulatively irregular and unpredictable for the exhibition !

Another performance piece of Rebecca Horn, which contrasted from that of Paradiso, was the piece Inferno. Inferno was construc

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