One room comprising a digital text piece Blue Tilt II, 2007 and two paintings Protect Protect and Shape the Battlefield, both 2007.

The conceptual artist Jenny Holzer came to prominence in the late 1970s. She uses provocative statements in exhibitions or other public places to elicit debate. Her text-based works present and call into question the rhetorical strategies of different forms of speech and writing, from philosophical tracts to fundamentalist preaching.

The selection of works from The d’Offay Donation demonstrates the flexibility of her approach. Blue Tilt II consists of six double-sided vertical LED signs on which a selection of messages from several of Holzer’s early text series run. Protect Protect and Shape the Battlefield are two large paintings from a recent series in which Holzer presents declassified American military documents relating to the current war in Iraq.