SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace

Black Pots, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Photo: Tom Lindboe

Black Pots, 2017 (detail)
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Photo: Edd Horder

Black Pots, 2017 (detail)
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Photo: Tom Lindboe

in (JIHAD) time, 2014
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: U.S. government document
Photo: Edd Horder

XX 7, 2013–15
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: U.S. government document
Photo: Jack Hems

Shifting to Softer Targets, 2014–15; ENCLOSURE 3, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Texts: U.S. government documents
Photo: Tom Lindboe

TOP SECRET 25, 2012
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: U.S. government document
Photo: Tom Lindboe

we are very happy, 2014
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: U.S. government document
Photo: Tom Lindboe

The behavior, 2013
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: U.S. government document
Photo: Tom Lindboe

8, 2012
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: U.S. government document
Photo: Tom Lindboe

water mixed with snow, 2012–13
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: U.S. government document
Photo: Tom Lindboe

Question Answer, 2014; SECRET 9, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Texts: U.S. government documents
Photo: Studio8

X CONCLUSION, 2014; After my transfer, 2014
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Texts: U.S. government documents
Photo: Edd Horder

Small Left Hand 0147-03 blue white, 2009
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Texts: U.S. government documents
Photo: Tom Lindboe

Attention grasp, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: U.S. government document
Photo: Studio8

Great Table, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Photo: Tom Lindboe

Great Table, 2017 (detail)
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Photo: Tom Lindboe

Cabinets, 2017 (detail)
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Photo: Tom Lindboe

THERE WAS A SOLDIER, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

THERE WAS A SOLDIER, 2017 (detail)
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

For Blenheim, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

For Blenheim, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association.
Photo: Studio8

For Blenheim, 2017 (detail)
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

For Blenheim, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: Interviews with current and former members of the British military, © 2017 by the Not Forgotten Association. Used with permission of the Not Forgotten Association.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

Exhibition view: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Photo: Tom Lindboe

STATEMENT – redacted, 2015
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: Interview conducted by Save the Children (STC) in Jordan, from case studies, © 2012–16 by STC. Used with permission of STC. All names have been changed to protect identities.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

EACH OTHER’S EYES, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “When You Shoot at Me” 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.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

SUCH WORDS, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “When You Shoot at Me,” “When a Soldier Is Dying,” and “The Last Drop of Air” 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.
Photo: Studio8

TWO FEARS, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “When You Shoot at Me” 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.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

SUCH WORDS, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “When a Soldier is Dying” 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.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

A FIRING TANK, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “It Smashes the Barricades” 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.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

THE YOUNGEST SOLDIER, 2017 (detail)
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “He Had No Overcoat” 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.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

FIRST ORDER TO FIGHT, 2017 (detail)

Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “Let Them Count Corpses” 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.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

BEAUTY WORSHIPPED, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “Beauty Dies” 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.
Photo: Jack Hems

YOU ENEMY, 2017 (detail)
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “A Soldier Says” 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.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

STILL LIFE, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “Still Life” 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.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

STILL LIFE, 2017 (detail)
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Text: “Still Life” 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.
Photo: Tom Lindboe

OF WAR, 2017
Installation: SOFTER: Jenny Holzer at Blenheim Palace, Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, England, 2017
September 29–December 31, 2017
Photo: Tom Lindboe