Jenny Holzer

Watch a time-lapse video of the installation of the LED sculpture For Chicago (2008) for the Museum's presentation of Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT.

Whether questioning consumerist impulses, describing torture, or lamenting death and disease, Jenny Holzer's use of language provokes a response in the viewer. While her subversive work often blends in among advertisements in public space, its arresting content violates expectations. Holzer's texts-such as the aphorisms "abuse of power comes as no surprise" and "protect me from what I want"-have appeared on posters and condoms, and as electronic LED signs and projections of xenon light. Holzer's recent use of text ranges from silk-screened paintings of declassified government memoranda detailing prisoner abuse, to poetry and prose in a 65-foot wide wall of light in the lobby of 7 World Trade Center, New York.

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