Jenny Holzer. Protect Protect. 2009. Electronic Lights. As seen in the Whitney Museum of American Art. “The works in this exhibition feature selections of Holzer’s writings from 1977 to 2001, as well as declassified pages from U.S. government documents she has used as source material since 2004. The exhibition’s subtitle PROTECT PROTECT derives from texts detailing plans for the Iraq war, yet it also relates to the problematic power of personal desire, as encapsulated in one of Holzer’s best-known statements: PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT.” (courtesy of whitney.org) I saw this exhibit and cried. It’s beautiful.

Jenny Holzer. Protect Protect. 2009. Electronic Lights. As seen in the Whitney Museum of American Art.

“The works in this exhibition feature selections of Holzer’s writings from 1977 to 2001, as well as declassified pages from U.S. government documents she has used as source material since 2004. The exhibition’s subtitle PROTECT PROTECT derives from texts detailing plans for the Iraq war, yet it also relates to the problematic power of personal desire, as encapsulated in one of Holzer’s best-known statements: PROTECT ME FROM WHAT I WANT.” (courtesy of whitney.org)

I saw this exhibit and cried. It’s beautiful.