Jenny Holzer's It Takes A While...(1989) speaks directly, and in first-person, to the issue of gentrification, eviction and displacement. Holzer, who uses language and the codes of advertising to deliver her moralistic message, suggests that the process of gentrification implies mastering the ability to ignore social outcasts like the homeless.
Thursday, December 11, 2008
Jenny Holzer, It Takes A While...(1988-89)
Jenny Holzer's It Takes A While...(1989) speaks directly, and in first-person, to the issue of gentrification, eviction and displacement. Holzer, who uses language and the codes of advertising to deliver her moralistic message, suggests that the process of gentrification implies mastering the ability to ignore social outcasts like the homeless.
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