Next Stop for Jenny Holzer Exhibition: DHC/ART Foundation for Contemporary Art

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. Part oracle and part provocateur, the viewer must sort the profound from the prattle in Jenny Holzer’s texts. Her incisive and premonitory pronouncements, which are condensed, filtered or disti

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