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Jenny Holzer, Pearl’s Truisms & Survival

Jenny HolzerPearl’s Truisms & Survival, 2013

Horizontal LED sign: RGB diodes, stainless steel housing

23.6 × 173 × 6.1 cm

About the artist

Jenny Holzer (*1950) has been probing the aesthetic and political intersection of language, installation, and painting since the late 1970s. Holzer displays her own and other texts in a variety of media, including LED tickers and light projections in public spaces, confronting current events and topics such as war and sexual violence in a way that defies didacticism and challenges the viewer’s passivity. The New York-based artist has been with the gallery since 1986, first represented by Galerie Monika Sprüth, then by Sprüth Magers.

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