Living Series: There's the Sensation of a lot of Flesh...
1989
Jenny Holzer's *Living Series: There's the Sensation of a lot of Flesh...* (1989) presents provocative, unsettling text as the primary artistic medium, continuing the artist's signature approach of using language to confront the viewer with raw, visceral human experience. The work engages the body as both subject and site of tension, evoking themes of vulnerability, desire, and physical existence through carefully chosen words. As part of Holzer's broader Living Series, the piece reflects her ongoing investigation into the power of text to disturb, challenge, and provoke emotional and psychological responses.
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- Phillips, Salt Lake City, UT
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Notes
Execution: Executed in 1989, this work is number 2 from an edition of 3.
🔨 Auction Lot
Modern & Contemporary Art Day Sale, Afternoon Session
May 15, 2020
Estimate: $60,000 to $80,000
Sold: $101,600
Lot 67
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Barbara Kruger
American · b. 1945
Kruger similarly uses bold, confrontational text as the primary medium to challenge power structures, gender, and bodily autonomy, creating language based works that provoke visceral responses about identity and desire in ways that closely mirror Holzer's Living Series approach.
Marlene McCarty
American · b. 1957
McCarty creates text and image based works that explore the body, sexuality, and female vulnerability with raw intensity, sharing Holzer's feminist conceptual framework and her unflinching engagement with physical existence and social tension.
Cindy Sherman
American · b. 1954
Sherman investigates themes of the body, vulnerability, desire, and constructed femininity through a conceptual lens that aligns with the visceral subject matter of Holzer's Living Series, both artists using their work as a site of feminist institutional critique about how bodies are perceived and experienced.
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