Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable

Exhibition view: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: José Miguel Llano

Ram, 2016
LED sign with blue, green & red diodes
5.5 x 300 x 5.5 in. / 14 x 762 x 14 cm
Text: “A Messenger” from Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Piotr Florczyk, © 2016 by the translator. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska and the translator.

Untitled, 2017
Human bones
Dimensions variable

Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Erika Ede

Ram, 2016
LED sign with blue, green & red diodes
5.5 x 300 x 5.5 in. / 14 x 762 x 14 cm
Text: “Hell” from Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Piotr Florczyk, © 2016 by the translator. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska and the translator.

Untitled, 2017
Human bones
Dimensions variable

Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Collin LaFleche

Exhibition view: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Collin LaFleche

Purple, 2008
19 LED signs with blue, green, red & white diodes
58.3 x 5.25 x 5.8 in. / 148.1 x 13.3 x 14.8 cm, each
Text: Lustmord, 1993–95

I WOKE UP NAKED, 2018
LED sign with blue, green & red diodes
5.5 x 141 x 5.5 in. / 14 x 358.1 x 14 cm
Text: Interviews conducted by Human Rights Watch (HRW), © 1992–2017 by HRW. Used with permission of HRW. All names have been changed to protect identities.

Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: José Miguel Llano

I WOKE UP NAKED, 2018
LED sign with blue, green & red diodes
5.5 x 141 x 5.5 in. / 14 x 358.1 x 14 cm
Text: Interviews conducted by Human Rights Watch (HRW), © 1992–2017 by HRW. Used with permission of HRW. All names have been changed to protect identities.
Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Erika Ede

Purple, 2008 (detail)
19 LED signs with blue, green, red & white diodes
58.3 x 5.25 x 5.8 in. / 148.1 x 13.3 x 14.8 cm, each
Text: Lustmord, 1993–95
Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Erika Ede

Exhibition view: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 2019
Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Erika Ede

Memorial Bench I: Always polite to officers…, 1996 (detail)
Indiana Buff limestone bench
17.5 x 72 x 24 in. / 44.5 x 182.9 x 61 cm
Text: Erlauf, 1995

THERE WAS A WAR, 2018 (detail)
LED sign with blue, green & red diodes
90 x 5.5 x 5.5 in. / 228.6 x 14 x 14 cm
Text: Interview conducted by Human Rights Watch (HRW) with former detainee, 2012, from Torture Archipelago: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, and Enforced Disappearances in Syria’s Underground Prisons since March 2011, © 2012 by HRW. Used with permission of HRW. All names have been changed to protect identities.

Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 1996 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Collin LaFleche

Survival: The beginning of the war…, 1989
Indian Red granite bench
17 x 42 x 18 in. / 43.2 x 106.7 x 45.7 cm
Text: Survival, 1983–85
Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
©1989 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: José Miguel Llano

Exhibition view: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Erika Ede

Laments: With only my mind…, 1989
Red Ankara marble sarcophagus
82 x 30 x 24.4 in. / 208.3 x 76.2 x 61.9 cm
Text: Laments, 1989

Inflammatory Wall, 1979–82
Wall of offset posters on colored paper
17 x 17 in. / 43.2 x 43.2 cm, each
Text: Inflammatory Essays, 1979–82

Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: José Miguel Llano

Wish List, 2006
Oil on linen
33 x 25.5 in. / 83.8 x 64.8 cm
Text: U.S. government document

Protect Protect ochre, 2007
Oil on linen
79 x 102.25 in. / 200.7 x 259.7 cm
Text: U.S. government document

from Survival (1983–85)
Condom
Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Collin LaFleche