Ram, 2016 LED sign with blue, green & red diodes 5.5 x 300 x 5.5 in. / 14 x 762 x 14 cm Text: “A Messenger” from Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Piotr Florczyk, © 2016 by the translator. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska and the translator. Untitled, 2017 Human bones Dimensions variable Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Erika Ede

Ram, 2016 LED sign with blue, green & red diodes 5.5 x 300 x 5.5 in. / 14 x 762 x 14 cm Text: “Hell” from Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Piotr Florczyk, © 2016 by the translator. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska and the translator. Untitled, 2017 Human bones Dimensions variable Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Collin LaFleche

Purple, 2008 19 LED signs with blue, green, red & white diodes 58.3 x 5.25 x 5.8 in. / 148.1 x 13.3 x 14.8 cm, each Text: Lustmord, 1993–95 I WOKE UP NAKED, 2018 LED sign with blue, green, & red diodes 5.5 x 141 x 5.5 in. / 14 x 358.1 x 14 cm Text: Interviews conducted by Human Rights Watch (HRW), © 1992–2017 by HRW. Used with permission of HRW. All names have been changed to protect identities. Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: José Miguel Llano

I WOKE UP NAKED, 2018 LED sign with blue, green, & red diodes 5.5 x 141 x 5.5 in. / 14 x 358.1 x 14 cm Text: Interviews conducted by Human Rights Watch (HRW), © 1992–2017 by HRW. Used with permission of HRW. All names have been changed to protect identities. Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Erika Ede

Purple, 2008 (detail) 19 LED signs with blue, green, red & white diodes 58.3 x 5.25 x 5.8 in. / 148.1 x 13.3 x 14.8 cm, each Text: Lustmord, 1993–95 Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Erika Ede

Memorial Bench I: Always polite to officers…, 1996 (detail) Indiana Buff limestone bench 17.5 x 72 x 24 in. / 44.5 x 182.9 x 61 cm Text: Erlauf, 1995 THERE WAS A WAR, 2018 (detail) LED sign with blue, green & red diodes 90 x 5.5 x 5.5 in. / 228.6 x 14 x 14 cm Text: Interview conducted by Human Rights Watch (HRW) with former detainee, 2012, from Torture Archipelago: Arbitrary Arrests, Torture, and Enforced Disappearances in Syria’s Underground Prisons since March 2011, © 2012 by HRW. Used with permission of HRW. All names have been changed to protect identities. Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 1996 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Collin LaFleche

Survival: The beginning of the war…, 1989 Indian Red granite bench 17 x 42 x 18 in. / 43.2 x 106.7 x 45.7 cm Text: Survival, 1983–85 Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 1989 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: José Miguel Llano

Laments: With only my mind…, 1989 Red Ankara marble sarcophagus 82 x 30 x 24.4 in. / 208.3 x 76.2 x 61.9 cm Text: Laments, 1989 Inflammatory Wall, 1979–82 Wall of offset posters on colored paper 17 x 17 in. / 43.2 x 43.2 cm, each Text: Inflammatory Essays, 1979–82 Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: José Miguel Llano

Wish List, 2006 Oil on linen 33 x 25.5 in. / 83.8 x 64.8 cm Text: U.S. government document Protect Protect ochre, 2007 Oil on linen 79 x 102.25 in. / 200.7 x 259.7 cm Text: U.S. government document Installation: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019 © 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Erika Ede

Exhibition view: Jenny Holzer: Thing Indescribable, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, 2019
© 2019 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY
Photo: José Miguel Llano