Jenny Holzer: Are you alive?

Holzer visited Ibiza in the late 1990s, while installing a show at the Guggenheim Bilbao.

Now the artist has returned to the island with two gallery exhibitions as well as a series of outdoor texts, etched onto Ibiza’s caves, cliffs and boulders.

Entitled, ARE YOU ALIVE?, the gallery show opened a couple of days ago at Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté galleries, Lune Rouge and Art Projects Ibiza galleries, both in the island’s capital, Ibiza Town. The works here feature Holzers Truisms, which the artist is screening on LED read-outs and carved into seats.

However, a little further outside town, on the south-western coast of the island, the artist has installed a more forgiving, numinous series of quotes, drawn from the works of the US Imagist poet Hilda Doolittle, the French writer Arthur Rimbaud, the Mexican poet and diplomat Octavio Paz, and the English novelist DH Lawrence, among others.