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Cliff Sappho, 2011 (detail)

Engraved boulder. Text: Sappho, fragment 43 Voigt. English translation from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, © 2002 by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group and the author. Used/reprinted with permission of the publisher and the author. Permanent installation: Ekeberg Sculpture and Heritage Park, Oslo © 2011 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Ivar Kvaal

YOU BE MY ALLY

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: Phaedrus by Plato, English translation by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, © 1995 by the translators. Used with permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc.; The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: Discourse on Colonialism by Aimé Césaire, © 1955 by Éditions Présence Africaine. English translation by Joan Pinkham, © 1972 by Monthly Review Press. Used with permission of the publisher; Phaedrus by Plato, English translation by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, © 1995 by the translators. Used with permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: Love Is My Savior: The Arabic Poems of Rumi, English translation by Nesreen Akhtarkhavari and Anthony A. Lee, © 2016 by the translators. Used with permission of the Michigan State University Press. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: “Dislocation” from The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers by Fouad Laroui, © 2012 by Éditions Julliard. English translation by Emma Ramadan, © 2016 by the translator. Used with permission of Deep Vellum Publishing. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: “Sex in Public” by Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, © 1998 by the University of Chicago Press, from Critical Inquiry, Winter 1998. Used with permission of the authors; The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche, English translation by Walter Kaufmann, © 1967 by Random House, Inc. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC; Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog, © 1998 by the author. Used with permission of Penguin Random House South Africa. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: “Sex in Public” by Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, © 1998 by the University of Chicago Press, from Critical Inquiry, Winter 1998. Used with permission of the authors; The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche, English translation by Walter Kaufmann, © 1967 by Random House, Inc. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020 © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: “Sex in Public” by Lauren Berlant and Michael Warner, © 1998 by the University of Chicago Press, from Critical Inquiry, Winter 1998. Used with permission of the authors; The Case of Wagner by Friedrich Nietzsche, English translation by Walter Kaufmann, © 1967 by Random House, Inc. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020 © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com; Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818; The World I Live In by Helen Keller, 1908. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com; Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: Stesichoros, fragment 192 PMG as cited by Plato, Phaedrus 243a, from Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 1998 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved; Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, © 1952 by Éditions du Seuil. English translation by Richard Philcox, © 2008 by the translator. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc.; Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog, © 1998 by the author. Used with permission of Penguin Random House South Africa. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: “The Declaration of the Rights of Woman” by Olympe de Gouges, English translation by Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, and Mary Durham Johnson, © 1979 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, from Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1795. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog, © 1998 by the author. Used with permission of Penguin Random House South Africa; “The Declaration of the Rights of Woman” by Olympe de Gouges, English translation by Darline Gay Levy, Harriet Branson Applewhite, and Mary Durham Johnson, © 1979 by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois, from Women in Revolutionary Paris, 1789–1795. Used with permission of the University of Illinois Press. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman by Mary Wollstonecraft, 1792; Citizen by Claudia Rankine, © 2014 by the author. Used with permission of Graywolf Press. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” from Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, © 1984 by the author. Used with permission of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency; The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC; The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, © 1958 by the University of Chicago Press. Used with permission of the publisher; Citizen by Claudia Rankine, © 2014 by the author. Used with permission of Graywolf Press; Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” from Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, © 1984 by the author. Used with permission of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency; The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC; The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, © 1958 by the University of Chicago Press. Used with permission of the publisher; Citizen by Claudia Rankine, © 2014 by the author. Used with permission of Graywolf Press. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app. Text: “Poetry Is Not a Luxury” from Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde, © 1984 by the author. Used with permission of the Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency; The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC; The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, © 1958 by the University of Chicago Press. Used with permission of the publisher; Citizen by Claudia Rankine, © 2014 by the author. Used with permission of Graywolf Press. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck. Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck. Text: Phaedrus by Plato, English translation by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, © 1995 by the translators. Used with permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck. Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck. Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck. Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. Chicago, Illinois, USA. © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck. Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com; Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Augmented reality app Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Installation: University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, 2020 © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, © 1952 by Éditions du Seuil. English translation by Richard Philcox, © 2008 by the translator. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc; Phaedrus by Plato, English translation by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, © 1995 by the translators. Used with permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: The Souls of Black Folk b y W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903; Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, © 1952 by Éditions du Seuil. English translation by Richard Philcox, © 2008 by the translator. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

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YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog, © 1998 by the author. Used with permission of Penguin Random House South Africa. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Country of My Skull by Antjie Krog, © 1998 by the author. Used with permission of Penguin Random House South Africa; Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved; Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved; Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Phaedrus by Plato, English translation by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, © 1995 by the translators. Used with permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com; Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Text: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC; Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Text: The Second Sex by Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC; The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Text: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, © 1952 by Éditions du Seuil. English translation by Richard Philcox, © 2008 by the translator. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc; The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, © 1958 by the University of Chicago Press. Used with permission of the publisher. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, © 1952 by Éditions du Seuil. English translation by Richard Philcox, © 2008 by the translator. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Phaedrus by Plato, English translation by Alexander Nehamas and Paul Woodruff, © 1995 by the translators. Used with permission of Hackett Publishing Company, Inc. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, © 1952 by Éditions du Seuil. English translation by Richard Philcox, © 2008 by the translator. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc; Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved; Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, © 1952 by Éditions du Seuil. English translation by Richard Philcox, © 2008 by the translator. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Text: A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf, © 1929 by the author. Used with permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Trade Publishing; Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Text: Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, 1818; Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Text: The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, © 1958 by the University of Chicago Press. Used with permission of the publisher. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

Text: Borderlands / La Frontera by Gloria Anzaldúa, © 1987 by the author. Used with permission of Aunt Lute Books, www.auntlute.com. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Black Skin, White Masks by Frantz Fanon, © 1952 by Éditions du Seuil. English translation by Richard Philcox, © 2008 by the translator. Used with permission of Grove/Atlantic, Inc. University of Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

LED truck Text: Sappho, fragment 1 from If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho by Anne Carson, first published by Alfred A. Knopf, © 2002 by the author. Reprinted by permission of the author and Aragi Inc. All rights reserved. Chicago, Illinois, USA © 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Christopher Dilts

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020

YOU BE MY ALLY, 2020
Texts: The Souls of Black Folk by W. E. B. Du Bois, 1903; The Second Sexby Simone de Beauvoir, © 1949 by Éditions Gallimard. English translation by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, © 2009 by the translators. Used with permission of Penguin Random House LLC; The Human Condition by Hannah Arendt, © 1958 by the University of Chicago Press. Used with permission of the publisher. “Dislocation” from The Curious Case of Dassoukine’s Trousers by Fouad Laroui, © 2012 by Éditions Julliard. English translation by Emma Ramadan, © 2016 by the translator. Used with permission of Deep Vellum Publishing. Chicago
Chicago
© 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Videos: Chris Sato

YOU VOTE

YOU VOTE, 2020
Text: Protest sign
© 2020 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Animation: Seth Brau

Animation text

LIDERA CON AMOR VOTA TEMPRANO
PROTECT BLACK WOMEN VOTE
SOMEONE STRUGGLED FOR YOUR RIGHT TO VOTE USE IT VOTE EARLY YOU VOTE
VOTE FOR THOSE LOST VOTE EARLY
VOTE OUT VOTER SUPPRESSION VOTE EARLY

Blenheim Palace

For Blenheim, 2017 (detail)

24 LED signs with blue, red & white diodes, 28.9 x 5.25 x 55.9 in. / 73.3 x 13.3 x 142 cm. Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association. Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017. © 2017 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Samuel Keyte

ON WAR, 2017

Light projection, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England. Text: “The Fire Roars” 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; Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association. © 2017 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Samuel Keyte

ON WAR, 2017

Light projection, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England. Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association; Zein Abdullah quoted in A Postcard from Aleppo by Issa Touma, © 2015 by the author. Used with permission of the author. © 2017 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Samuel Keyte

ON WAR, 2017

Light projection, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England. Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association; “Massacre” from ADRENALIN by Ghayath Almadhoun, English translation by Catherine Cobham, © 2017 by the author and the translator. Used with permission of the author and the translator; “Earth and Sky” 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. © 2017 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Tom Lindboe

ON WAR, 2017

Light projection. Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England. Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association; Interview conducted by Save the Children (STC) in refugee camps on the borders of Syria, 2012, from Untold Atrocities: The Stories of Syria’s Children, © 2012 by STC. Used with permission of STC. All names have been changed to protect identities; Interview conducted by Human Rights Watch (HRW) with former detainee, 2012, from Torture Archipelago: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, and Enforced Disappearances in Syria’s Underground Prisons since March 2011, © 2012 by HRW. Used with permission of HRW. All names have been changed to protect identities; Fatiha Kamel quoted in A Postcard from Aleppo by Issa Touma, © 2015 by the author. Used with permission of the author; “The War Works Hard” from The War Works Hard by Dunya Mikhail, English translation by Elizabeth Winslow, © 2005 by the author and the translator. Used with permission of New Directions Publishing Corp. © 2017 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Tom Lindboe

ON WAR, 2017

Exhibition view: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace

For Blenheim, 2017

24 LED signs with blue, red & white diodes. 28.9 x 5.25 x 55.9 in. / 73.3 x 13.3 x 142 cm. Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association. Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017. © 2017 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Tom Lindboe

For Blenheim, 2017

OF WAR, 2017

LED Trucks and Marquees

It Is Guns, 2018

VOTE YOUR FUTURE, 2018

Light the Fight, 2018

LED truck, New York. Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author. © 2018 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Steve Speranza

Light the Fight, 2018

LED truck, New York. Text: Weight of the Earth: The Tape Journals of David Wojnarowicz, © 2018 by the author’s estate. Used with permission of the author’s estate and P•P•O•W, New York. © 2018 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Daniel Shapiro

Light the Fight, 2018

LED trucks, New York. Text: “Notes on Seroconversion” and “You Passed Just Hours Ago” by Ricardo Hernandez, © 2018 by the author, from The Offing, October 17, 2018. Used with permission of the author; “Epivir, d4T, Crixivan” by Henri Cole, © 2017 by the author, from The Nation, March 6, 2017. Used with permission of the author. © 2018 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Daniel Shapiro

LEDs and Electric Signs

Sign on a Truck, 1984

Mobile 2000 video control system 161.5 x 216.5 in. / 410.2 x 549.9 cm, screen. Text: Survival, 1983–85 Site view: Grand Army Plaza, New York, 1984. © 1984 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Pelka/Noble

Exhibition view: Jenny Holzer: From the Laments Series, 1989

from Truisms (1977–79), 1982

Electronic sign, 20 x 40 ft. / 6.1 x 12.2 m. Installation: Messages to the Public, Times Square, New York, 1982. © 1982 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo © 1982 Lisa Kahane NYC

Sign on a Truck, with image contributed by Keith Haring, 1984

Mobile 2000 video control system 161.5 x 216.5 in. / 410.2 x 549.9 cm, screen. Site view: Grand Army Plaza, New York. © 1984 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Haring artwork © Keith Haring Foundation

Sign on a Truck, with image contributed by Barbara Kruger, 1984

The Venice Installation: The Last Room, 1990

11 LED signs with green, red & yellow diodes, 9.5 x 176 x 4.5 in. / 24.1 x 447 x 11.4 cm, each. Text: Truisms, 1977–79; Under a Rock, 1986; Survival, 1983– 85; Inflammatory Essays, 1979–82; Laments, 1989; Living, 1980–82 Installation: 44th Venice Biennale, United States Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, 1990. © 1990 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Salvatore Licitra

The Venice Installation: The Last Room, 1990 (detail)

11 LED signs with green, red & yellow diodes. 168 x 9.5 x 4.5 in. / 447 x 24.1 x 11.4 cm, each. Text: Survival, 1983–85; Inflammatory Essays, 1979–82 Installation: 44th Venice Biennale, United States Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, Venice, 1990. © 1990 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Salvatore Licitra

The Venice Installation: The Child Room, 1990

Rosso Magnaboschi, Biancone & Nero Marquina marble floor; 12 LED signs with green, red & yellow diodes Text: Mother and Child, 1990. Installation: 44th Venice Biennale, United States Pavilion, Venice, 1990 © 1990 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Salvatore Licitra

Lustmord

Lustmord, 1993

Painted Signs

Living: Affluent college-bound students…, 1981

Living: After dark it’s a relief to see a girl…, 1981

Living: Effigies let you study or act…, 1981

Living: It can be startling to see someone’s breath…, 1981

Living: It’s nice when you decide you like someone…, 1981

Living Wall, 1981

Exhibition view: Jenny Holzer’s The Living Series, 1980–82

Plaques

Living: More than once I’ve awakened with tears…, 1981

Cast-bronze plaque. 7.6 x 10.1 in. / 19.4 x 25.7 cm. Text: Living, 1980–82 Installation: 41 West 57th Street, New York, 1982. © 1981 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Pelka/Noble

Living: Affluent college-bound students face…, 1981

Living: After dark it’s a relief to see a girl…, 1981

Living: It can be helpful to think of them…, 1981

Living: More than once I’ve wakened with tears…1980-82

Bronze, 7 5/8 x10 1/8′′ (19.4 x 25.7 cm). Purchase. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, U.S.A. Digital Image © The Museum of Modern Art/Licensed by SCALA / Art Resource, NY

Survival: Men don’t protect you anymore, 1984

Survival: Mothers with reasons to sob…, 1984

Survival: Protect me from what I want, 1986

Truisms: If you aren’t political your personal life should be exemplary, 1998

Survival: Savor Kindness…, 1983

Cast-aluminum plaque, 3 x 10 in. / 7.6 x 25.4 cm. Text: Survival, 1983–85. Installation: Concentrations 10: Jenny Holzer, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, USA, 1984-1985. © 1983 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Juan Garcia

Posters and Stonework Drawings

from Truisms (1977–79), 1977

Inflammatory Wall, 1979–82 (detail)

Wall of offset posters on colored paper 17 x 17 in. / 43.2 x 43.2 cm, each Text: Inflammatory Essays, 1979–82

from Inflammatory Essays (1979–82), 1983

from Inflammatory Essays (1979–82), 1982

Offset posters on colored paper, 17 x 17 in. / 43.2 x 43.2 cm, each. Installation: Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, 1982. © 1982 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY

from Inflammatory Essays, (1979–82), 1982

from Truisms (1977–79), 1982

from Truisms (1977–79); from Inflammatory Essays (1979–82), 1984

Offset posters, 34.75 x 23.9 in. / 88.2 x 60.6 cm, each. Installation: Poster Project, Seattle, Washington, USA, 1984. © 1984 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Deborah Oglesby

from Inflammatory Essays, 1979–82

Laments: I want to live…, 1988

Laments: The new disease came…, 1988

from Inflammatory Essays, 1979–82

from Truisms (1977–79), 1977

from Inflammatory Essays, 1979–82

Projections

For New York City, 2004

Light projection, Hotel Pennsylvania, New York. Text: “Children of Our Age” from View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska, copyright © 1993 by the author. English translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, copyright © 1995 by Harcourt, Inc. Used/reprinted with permission of the author. Presented by Creative Time. © 2004 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Attilio Maranzano

Xenon for Bordeaux and Paris, 2001

Light projection, Louvre Pyramid, Napoleon Courtyard, Paris. Text: War, 1992; Truisms, 1977–79; Mother and Child, 1990. © 2001 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Attilio Maranzano

Xenon for Bordeaux and Paris, 2001

Xenon for Florence, 1996

Xenon for Bordeaux and Paris, 2001

Projection for Chicago, 2008

Light projection, 2 N. Riverside Plaza, Chicago. Text: “The Joy of Writing” from View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska, © 1993 by the author. English translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used with permission of the publisher and the author. © 2008 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: John Faier

Projection for Chicago, 2008

Light projection, Tribune Tower, Chicago. Text: “Could Have” from View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska, © 1993 by the author. English translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used with permission of the publisher and the author. © 2008 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: John Faier

Projection for Chicago, 2008

Light projection, Merchandise Mart, Chicago. Text: “The Joy of Writing” from View with a Grain of Sand by Wisława Szymborska, © 1993 by the author. English translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used with permission of the publisher and the author. © 2008 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: John Faier

Xenon for DC, 2004

Xenon for Bregenz, 2004

For the City, 2005

Text: “He Embraces His Murderer” from Unfortunately, It Was Paradise by Mahmoud Darwish, copyright © 2003 by the Regents of the University of California. Used/reprinted with permission of the University of California Press; “My Sad Self” from Collected Poems, 1947–1980 by Allen Ginsberg, copyright © 1958 by the author. Used/reprinted with permission of The Wylie Agency, Inc. Presented by Creative Time. © 2005 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Attilio Maranzano

For the City, 2005

Light projection, Rockefeller Center, New York. Text: “Smoke” from Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski, © 2002 by the author. English translation by Renata Gorczynski, Benjamin Ivry, C.K. Williams and Clare Cavanagh, © 2002 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Used/reprinted with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Presented by Creative Time. © 2005 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Attilio Maranzano

For the City, 2005

Light projection, New York Public Library, New York. Text: “Love Lies Sleeping” from The Complete Poems: 1927– 1979 by Elizabeth Bishop, copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Helen Methfessel. Used/reprinted with permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Presented by Creative Time. © 2005 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Attilio Maranzano

For the Capitol, 2007

Light projection, Potomac River, Theodore Roosevelt Island, Washington, DC Text: John F. Kennedy, address delivered to a joint convention of the General Court of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, The State House, Boston, January 9, 1961. © 2007 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Attilio Maranzano

Web

Please Change Beliefs, 1995

World I and World II

Banner image: Jenny Holzer, Sign on a Truck, with image contributed by Barbara Kruger, 1984

Media

Cliff Sappho, 2011 (detail)

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