Jenny Holzer, born in 1950 in Ohio, now is a neo-conceptual artist based in New York.
Her most eye-catching works are large LED installations and projections. Her use of text in her works are significant: she uses text to dress the politics of discourses and to articulate concerns and anxieties about contemporary society. Her texts are thought-provoking, bold and straight forward. The use of capitalization of letters seem to give her text a volume of voice.
I really like her way of using her "Truisms" continuously in her later works, it makes her entire body of work, her voice in her work and style very consistent.
In 2018 Grammy's Award, she sewed a paper written with her Truisms on to Lorde's dress. I personally think this is incredible: when such a global event is full of aesthetics and visual pleasure, by putting a message on to an evening dress, it makes the dress and the person wearing it carry a meaning: in other words, she made Lorde into a human billboard. Public attention was drawn to the dress not because Lorde is wearing it, but because it carries more than an aesthetic idea, it carries words that worth reading.
"MONEY CREATES TASTE
ENJOY YOURSELF BECAUSE YOU CAN’T CHANGE ANYTHING ANYWAY
A MAN CAN’T KNOW WHAT IT’S LIKE TO BE A MOTHER"
