Jenny Holzer

Selections from the Survival Series

1983–85

Gray canvas with white text: "IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY."

Gray canvas with white text: "IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY."

Not on view

Date
1983–85

Classification
Photographs

Medium
Portfolio box with foil stamped cloth cover

Dimensions
Overall: 25 5/8 × 21 1/2 × 2in. (65.1 × 54.6 × 5.1 cm)

Accession number
2024.54.3

Credit line
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection

Rights and reproductions
© Jenny Holzer/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

API
artworks/38626

Part of a series:
"In a dream ..."
12 works

Small bones arranged on a wooden surface to spell out the word "EGO" vertically.

A woman in a dark dress stands with her back to the camera, shown twice; numbers and words are listed beside her.

A person with long hair and a beard has their eyes closed while another person gently holds their head.

A close-up view of a red, translucent surface with smooth and uneven textures against a white background.

A dark sky filled with many small stars, with a few brighter spots scattered throughout.

A person with curly hair and a face covered in dark dirt looks directly at the camera, slightly smiling.

Six colorful poppy flowers stand beside a yellow background with two dramatic theater mask faces and light rays.

Several people work at sewing machines in a busy garment factory, with one person standing and gesturing to another.

Three people stand in a sunlit room, talking near a window and a table stacked with papers and magazines.

Gray canvas with white text: "IN A DREAM YOU SAW A WAY TO SURVIVE AND YOU WERE FULL OF JOY."

Jenny Holzer
37 works in the collection, 9 exhibitions

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