{"id":5691,"date":"2025-11-21T11:40:46","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wanaskonst.se\/?post_type=samling&p=5691"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:09:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:09:11","slug":"holzer-jenny","status":"publish","type":"samling","link":"https:\/\/wanaskonst.se\/en\/samling\/holzer-jenny\/","title":{"rendered":"Holzer, Jenny"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Jenny Holzer, Wan\u00e5s Wall<\/em>, 2002. Photo Mattias Givell.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Jenny Holzer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

(Born 1950, works in Hoosick, NY)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wan\u00e5s Wall,<\/em> 2002<\/p>\n\n\n\n

260 inscriptions in 1,800-meter-long dry-stone wall<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With support from Stiftelsen Kulturbro<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Language has been central to Jenny Holzer\u2019s oeuvre since the late 1970s. She works with text series that are often featured in places where commercially- or politically-charged language is expected: on posters, electronic signs, building fa\u00e7ades, or receipts. When she visited Wan\u00e5s, she was fascinated by the dry-stone walls, a historical relic that tells of the labors of times past. She had stonemasons from the area sandblast four of her existing series of text into select stones in the stone wall that surrounds the park. Altogether, there are 260 texts in the 1.8 km-long wall. The artwork begins with Truisms<\/em> (1977\u20131979), Holzer\u2019s first text series. It is comprised of short messages inspired by a variety of value systems and political perspectives. Then follows texts from Erlauf<\/em> (1995), which is based on the horrors of the Second World War, and thereafter, the more poetic Arno<\/em> (1996) and Survival<\/em> (1983\u20131985), which deal with everyday life and its challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jenny Holzer, Wan\u00e5s Wall<\/em>, 2002. Photo Mattias Givell.<\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jenny Holzer, Wan\u00e5s Wall<\/em>, 2002. Photo Mattias Givell.<\/mark><\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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Jenny Holzer, Wan\u00e5s Wall<\/em>, 2002. Photo Erik Karlsson.<\/mark><\/mark><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>
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