SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: Nadya Tolokonnikova, closing statement during trial at Khamovnichesky Courthouse, Moscow, August 8, 2012. Used with permission of Pussy Riot.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Defending Freedom of Expression in the Written Word,” Tzedek Lecture, Oregon Humanities Center, May 26, 2010. Used with permission of the author.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: Donika Kelly in “The PEN Ten: An Interview with Donika Kelly” by Gabriel Fine, © 2021 by Donkia Kelly and PEN America, from PEN America, May 6, 2021. Used with permission of Donika Kelly; “Henry Louis Gates Jr. on Literary Freedom as an Essential Human Right” by Henry Louis Gates Jr, © 2021 by the author, from the New York Times, October 12, 2021. Used with permission of the author.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: “On Censorship” by Salman Rushdie, © 2012 by the author, from the New Yorker, May 11, 2012. Used with permission of the author.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: “The Censor in Each of Us” by Colm Tóibín, © 2014 by the author, from the New Yorker, May 6, 2014. Used with permission of the author.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: Ron Chernow, remarks at the White House Correspondents Dinner, Washington, DC, April 27, 2019. Used with permission of the author.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: S. A. Chakraborty in “On Magic, History, and Storytelling: The PEN Ten with S. A. Chakraborty” by Lily Philpott, © 2019 by S. A. Chakraborty and PEN America, from PEN America, January 10, 2019. Used with permission of S. A. Chakraborty.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: “Boycotting Russian Culture Doesn’t Help Ukraine” by Suzanne Nossel, © 2022 by the author, from the Wall Street Journal, March 10, 2022. Used with permission of the author.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: “Writing in the Dark” by David Grossman, English translation by Orr Scharf, © 2007 by the author, from the New York Times, May 13, 2007. Used with permission of the author.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: Steve Reigns in “The PEN Ten: An Interview with Steven Reigns,” © 2021 by Steve Reigns and PEN America, from PEN America, September 16, 2021. Used with permission of Steve Reigns.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak

SPEECH ITSELF, 2022
Light projection
Rockefeller Center, New York
Text: Ava DuVernay, email to Jenny Holzer Studio, 2022. Used with permission of the author.
© 2022 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: Filip Wolak