Jenny Holzer, Lustmord (Sex Murder)

(1) Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazin edition No.46 Nov. 19 1993, 94 pp. Confrontational intervention by Holzer who was invited to do a project for the magazine supplement of Germany’s largest newspaper. Lustmord (Sex Murder) exposed the systematic rape and murder of women during the Bosnia Herzegovina War, which was raging at the time.

The cover of the magazine was left black except for a folded white card printed with the text 'DA WO FRAUEN STERBEN BIN ICH HELLWACH' (I am awake in the place where women die). The interior featured photographic spreads comprising thirty images of human skin with disquieting tattood quotes relating to the Bosnian atrocities. Pivotal work, in good condition. (2) Diane Waldman, Jenny Holzer. New York, Guggenheim Museum, 1989. Softcover, 25.5 x 28 cm, 116 pp. (3) Jenny Holzer, Private Property Created Crime. Basel, Kunsthalle Basel / Le Nouveau Musée, 1984. Softcover, 63 pp. Introduction by Jean-Christophe Ammann, text in English. With inserted exhibition brochure. (total 3)