Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable

Jenny Holzer
Purple, 2008
20 LED signs with blue, green, red & white diodes
Each element: 148.1 x 13.3 x 14.8 cm
Text: U.S. government documents
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© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / VEGAP
Photo: Collin LaFleche

Jenny Holzer
Survival: Men don’t protect…, 1989
Indian Red granite bench
43.2 x 106.7 x 45.7 cm
Text: Survival, 1983–85
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© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / VEGAP
Photo: Larry Lame

Jenny Holzer
Living: More people will be building hiding places…, 1989
Bethel White granite bench
43.2 x 91.5 x 45.7 cm
Text: Living, 1980–82
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© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / VEGAP
Photo: David Heald

Jenny Holzer
Memorial Bench II: Eye cut by flying glass…, 1996 (detail)
Indiana Buff limestone bench
44.1 x 182.9 x 61 cm
Text: Erlauf, 1995
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© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / VEGAP
Photo: Erik Sumption

Jenny Holzer
Living: Affluent college-bound students…, 1998
Carbon drawing on tracing paper
45.7 x 91.1 cm
Text: Living, 1980–82
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© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / VEGAP

Jenny Holzer
Lustmord Table, 1994 (detail)
Human bones, engraved silver bands, wooden table
74.3 x 177.8 x 113.7
Courtesy Sprüth Magers
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / VEGAP
Photo: Ken Adlard

Jenny Holzer
Ram, 2016
LED sign with blue, green & red diodes
14 x 762 x 14 cm
Text: “Two Faces the Color of Iron” from Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Piotr Florczyk, © 2016 by Tavern Books. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska and the translator.
Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY / VEGAP
Photo: Collin LaFleche