Jenny Holzer

Jenny Holzer creates text-based artworks, often displaying them by means of projection on structural exteriors around the world. In addition, she has created interesting LED displays to present her series of politically charged adages and expressions.

Her best-known work, Truisms, consists of a series of statements, at once political and provocative. Often the phrases presented, while provocative, appear to be simple, almost common sense, however the presentation itself might bring about deeper thought about the nature of what exactly we think we know. Holzer has displayed these phrases in various ways, including projection, street posters, websites and large-scale LED billboards. Her works have been printed on T-shirts and posters, and carved into stone benches and cast as bronze plaques.