Another classic artist working with text in an art context is Jenny Holzer. In her series, the
Truisms (1977-9) Holzer flyposted a series of short, enigmatic, slogan-like phrases across the urban landscape of New York, and in doing so initiated an extended exploration of he ways that text-works could be inserted into – and actively intervene within – the fabrics of the everyday world. Her exploration of this has taken the form of LED displays, advertising sites, building signage, t-shirts, polystyrene cups, and video projections. The work often interrogates the links between language, authority, space and power. and between personal and impersonal voices.
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| Jenny Holzer, Protect Me from What I Want, c.1982 (?), Times Square, New York. |
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| It is in Your Self-interest to Find a Way to Be Very Tender (installed on the marquis of an abandoned movie theatre in Chicago; part of the "Truisms for Survival" Series, 1983–5.) |
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| For London, projection, 2006. |
