Jenny Holzer
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WorkMove
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Image CreditsHauser & Wirth
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Kenny Schachter
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Ken Adlard
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Blenheim Art Foundation
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Links
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CopyrightJenny Holzer
“MOVE” is a four-sided vertical LED sign that swings from
a robotic arm suspended from the gallery ceiling. For this work, Holzer
sought new content to explore the international refugee crisis and
the devastating humanitarian consequences of Syria’s ongoing
civil war. The LED sign displays some 131 individual eyewitness accounts.
Interviews with civilian protesters arrested, detained and tortured
by the Assad regime and with regime defectors conducted by Human Rights
Watch (between 23 May 2011 and 15 April 2012) offer insight into the
broken promise of Syria’s Arab Spring, while interviews conducted
by Save the Children (between September 2012 and April 2016) give
voice to Syrian families who have fled their homes during the past
five years, and now struggle with daunting challenges.
Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950, Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American
neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main
focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces.
The public dimension is integral to Holzer's work. Her large-scale
installations have included advertising billboards, projections on
buildings and other architectural structures, and illuminated digital
displays.
Jenny Holzer
-
WorkMove
-
Image CreditsHauser & Wirth
-
Kenny Schachter
-
Ken Adlard
-
Blenheim Art Foundation
-
Links
-
CopyrightJenny Holzer
“MOVE” is a four-sided vertical LED sign that swings from
a robotic arm suspended from the gallery ceiling. For this work, Holzer
sought new content to explore the international refugee crisis and
the devastating humanitarian consequences of Syria’s ongoing
civil war. The LED sign displays some 131 individual eyewitness accounts.
Interviews with civilian protesters arrested, detained and tortured
by the Assad regime and with regime defectors conducted by Human Rights
Watch (between 23 May 2011 and 15 April 2012) offer insight into the
broken promise of Syria’s Arab Spring, while interviews conducted
by Save the Children (between September 2012 and April 2016) give
voice to Syrian families who have fled their homes during the past
five years, and now struggle with daunting challenges.
Jenny Holzer (born July 29, 1950, Gallipolis, Ohio) is an American
neo-conceptual artist, based in Hoosick Falls, New York. The main
focus of her work is the delivery of words and ideas in public spaces.
The public dimension is integral to Holzer's work. Her large-scale
installations have included advertising billboards, projections on
buildings and other architectural structures, and illuminated digital
displays.
