Rebecca Horn (24 March 1944, Michelstadt, Hesse) is a German installation artist and film director.While Rebecca Horn's more recent work has been determined by a poetical deployment of mechanical constructions, this object belongs to 'Performances II' (1973), a film in which Rebecca Horn was preoccupied still with extending her own body into space. Besides the 'Finger Gloves', body extensions also figured in the performances 'Einhorn' ('Unicorn'), 'Kopf-Extension' ('Head Extension'), 'Weißer Körperfächer' ('White Body Fan'), 'Meine Hand kann fliegen' ('My Hand Can Fly'), 'Gavin', 'Hahnenmaske' (Cockfeather Mask'), 'Bleistiftmaske' (Pencil Mask') and 'Kakadu-Maske' ('Cockatoo Mask')
Finger Gloves 1972 
Pencil Mask 1972 She also began to slowly broke her self-imposed isolation and began creating sculptures and strange extensions with balsa wood and cloth. Her first body sculpture. Then her goal was to overthrow her "communication loneliness. Filled with bandages and prosthetic body extension in the form of the body, using the extension of the body. Additional objects in which she and means to human, as well as her theme of a man, he Contact or her environment. Rebecca Horn opened up a vast space, pulled her to redefine the dimensions of the installation requirements. fragile installation and implied unspeakable.'s presence, we can only feel what is a unique, constantly work on this new artist every single installation is complete toward breaking the boundaries of time and space.
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