MONTREAL.- For more than thirty years,
Jenny
Holzer’s work has paired text and installation to examine personal and
social
realities. In this exhibition, which centers on her work from the
mid-1990s to
the present, Holzer fuses political comment with formal beauty. Using
language
as her principal medium – either printed on posters and T-shirts or
scrolling on
LED (light-emitting-diode) displays – Jenny Holzer’s text-based art
provides a
range of opinions and voices while addressing the interplay between the
public
and the private. Appearing in both museum exhibitions and more
anonymously in
the public realm, her work is also presented as dematerialized and
somberly
majestic nighttime projections on buildings and in natural settings,
including
crashing ocean waves. On view until 14 November.