Guggenheim Museum

Watch how certain stone fragments in Jenny Holzer’s “broken” (2024) were created. Holzer’s first uses of stone in the 1980s coincided with some of her early formal installations. Simple arrangements of stone works in LED-lit rooms—including her 1989 ring of benches in the Guggenheim’s rotunda—created spaces of contemplation and anticipation reminiscent of assemblies and waiting rooms. Granite and marble offered viewers a respite while lending Holzer’s words permanence. Those functions and associations are upended by a chaotic array of mismatched benches and salvaged fragments of smashed stone works, on view at #JennyHolzerLightLine ___ Pictured: Jenny Holzer (@jennyholzerstudio ), “broken,” 2024 (detail). © 2024 Jenny Holzer/ Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Video: Shaun Laframboise, Jon Verney. #JennyHolzer