Jenny Holzer ranks among the most outstanding American artists of the middle-age generation. At the beginning of her creative activity, she dealt with abstract painting, into which she was gradually introducing textual elements. In the latter half of the 1970's, she abandoned forms of expression peculiar to painting, and established written word as the basic means of her para-visual artistic expression. To disseminate her texts, Holzer uses media and mechanisms worked out by advertisements and other public icons of the consumptive society. Her brief printed announcements appear on hundreds of posters, posted in galleries and street billboards, on neon signs and T-shirts.

Among the best known Holzer projects are the grand ones where durable, 'classically' expressed records of the maxims, chiselled out in the surfaces of stony benches, mingle with ephemeral, motion electronic inscriptions running all over the surfaces of walls.

Aphorisms used by the artist are taken from the sphere of 'received views', proverbs, sayings, fixed ('stock') phrases, all referring to conventional ways of thinking and stereotypical convictions functioning within the contemporary society. Combined in vast amounts and put in the alphabetical order, as it is with the Truisms cycle, they disclose a lack of coherence, a chaotic nature, and, contradictorinesses of ideologies and value systems accepted by a post-industrial society.

The current CCA project is another presentation of Jenny Holzer's works hosted in Poland, after the 1993 exhibition. The sculpting of a few dozens of texts of the Truisms and Texts on Survival series on the rocky surface of the benches is another attempt at including the work within the public area of Warsaw, yet within a different context – one highlighting a material, or physical, durability. Notable is also the fact that the Holzer work shall initiate the 'Sculpture Garden' project in the closest neighbourhood of the Ujazdowski Castle. The initiative renders closer the possibility of establishing in Warsaw a unique collection of spatial realisations by the most illustrious contemporary artists, both Polish and foreign ones.