what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “A Woman Talks to Her Thigh” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1985 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; “Jerusalem Shadow” by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, © 1986 by the author, from The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. Used with permission of Leslie Cagan; “Bashert” from Her Birth and Later Years by Irena Klepfisz, © 2022 by the author. Used with permission of Wesleyan University Press. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “A Woman Talks to Her Thigh” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1985 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; “Jerusalem Shadow” by Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, © 1986 by the author, from The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology. Used with permission of Leslie Cagan. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “A Woman Talks to Her Thigh” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1985 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney, © 1990 by the Estate of Seamus Heaney. Used with permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “My Body Effervesces” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1985 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; “Resolution #1,003” from Directed by Desire: The Collected Poems of June Jordan, Copper Canyon Press, © 2007 by Christopher D. Meyer. Used with permission of the Frances Goldin Literary Agency. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “Thing Indescribable” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1996 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “Priceless Gifts” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1996 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; “In this time in this air” from Poetry & Protest by Dennis Brutus, © 2006 by the author, Lee Sustar, and Aisha Karim. Used with permission of Haymarket Books; “Friday, March 25 at 4 PM” from Time by Etel Adnan, English translation by Sarah Riggs, © 2019 by the translator. Used with permission of Simone Fattal and the translator. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “There Is a Light in Me” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1996 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; “One day we all will forgive the gods” (unpublished) by Omid Shams, © 2017 by the author. Used with permission of the author; “after & before” from Bluff by Danez Smith, © 2024 by the author. Used with permission of The Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of Graywolf Press, graywolfpress.org. All rights reserved. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “Take My Pain” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1996 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; “love poem” from Bluff by Danez Smith, © 2024 by the author. Used with permission of The Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of Graywolf Press, graywolfpress.org. All rights reserved; “after & before” from Bluff by Danez Smith, © 2024 by the author. Used with permission of The Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of Graywolf Press, graywolfpress.org. All rights reserved. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “I Want to Die in My Own Bed” from Yehuda Amichai: A Life of Poetry 1948–1994, English translation by Benjamin Harshav and Barbara Harshav, © 1994 by HarperCollins Publishers. Used with permission of the publisher and the author’s estate; “Forgot About His Mother” from Building the Barricade by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Piotr Florczyk, © 2016 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska and the translator. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska and the translator. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “Tortures” from Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wisława Szymborska, © 1993 by the Wisława Szymborska Foundation, www.szymborska.org.pl. English translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, © 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers and the Wisława Szymborska Foundation. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “Maternity” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1985 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; “Tortures” from Map: Collected and Last Poems by Wisława Szymborska, © 1993 by the Wisława Szymborska Foundation, www.szymborska.org.pl. English translation by Stanisław Barańczak and Clare Cavanagh, © 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used with permission of HarperCollins Publishers and the Wisława Szymborska Foundation. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “The Youngest Children of an Angel” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1985 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; Sham al-Sa’id quoted in “A Postcard from Aleppo” by Issa Touma, © 2015 by the author, from Syrische kunst in diaspora / Syrian Art in Diaspora. Used with permission of the author. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “In a Crimson Gondola” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1985 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; “If this is my face, so be it” by Yousif M. Qasmiyeh, English translation by the author, © 2016 by the author, from Modern Poetry in Translation, no. 1/2016. Used with permission of the author. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak
what you love, 2025 Light Projection Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland, USA Text: “Goddess of Matriarchy” from Talking to My Body by Anna Świrszczyńska, English translation by Czesław Miłosz and Leonard Nathan, © 1996 by Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Estate of Czesław Miłosz, and Leonard Nathan. Used with permission of Ludmiła Adamska-Orłowska, The Wylie Agency LLC, and Andrew Nathan; “after & before” from Bluff by Danez Smith, © 2024 by the author. Used with permission of The Permissions Company, LLC, on behalf of Graywolf Press, graywolfpress.org. All rights reserved. © 2025 Jenny Holzer, member Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY Photo: Filip Wolak