This spring the Whitney Museum of American Art has a new exhibit called Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT. It's Holzer's largest and most comprehensive exhibit in the U.S. in almost 20 years. The exhibition deals with LED lights - Holzer's medium of notoriety - as well as silk screens and paintings and and sculpture.
While there is a lot of positive talk about a new U.S. goverment and thus, a new take on U.S./Middle East relations, there still remains an Everest sized quantity of information from the past eight years that has not found a public audience. Holzer provides viewers with a new set of information to debate in PROTECT PROTECT. The text is often a shocking expose on the day-to-day of modern warfare provided by documents that are public, but the public never sees. Most of her text is taken from declassified military documents and makes them a) art b) worthy of thought and deliberation.
Check out a video on Jenny Holzer: PROTECT PROTECT
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