“I would pick a subject, write something on it, and then shrink the text to what I hoped were the essentials—banishing adjectives and dreck.”
– Conceptual artist
Jenny Holzer, on the wordsmithing that propelled her to fame. In conversation with
Artnet Europe editor Kate Brown about her
retrosepctive at Düsseldorf’s K21, the American artist discusses her formative years, the writers she draws on, and archival research.
