CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 6/17/2024

Jenny Holzer continues to challenge, opaquely, with 'Trace'

Featured image is reproduced from Jenny Holzer: Trace, published to accompany the artist’s blockbuster Guggenheim exhibition and full-scale rotunda takeover, Jenny Holzer: Light Line. Whereas the exhibition reimages Holzer’s landmark 1989 installation at the museum, this tactile artist’s book—printed on vellum paper with exposed smyth-sewn binding—features phrases from her powerful Truisms, Living and Survival text series, rendered as drawings, or rubbings, in the style of her iconic stone benches. Alongside the phrase shown here—“You live the surprise results of old plans”—are “Technology will make or break us,” “Use what is dominant in a culture to change it” and “Abuse of power comes as no surprise,” among others.