Underscoring the power of language and literature, YOU BE MY ALLY(2020) featured 29 text excerpts drawn from the University of Chicago's Core curriculum, selected by Holzer in collaboration with UChicago students and faculty. The artwork featured text by distinguished writers such as W. E. B. Du Bois, Helen Keller, Audre Lorde, Toni Morrison, Friedrich Nietzsche, Plato, Mary Shelley and Virginia Woolf.

A free, web-based AR app allowed users to see the texts as virtual light projections on the facades of architecturally significant buildings throughout the University's campus.

Jenny Holzer is an American conceptual and installation artist whose work deploys text in public spaces across an array of media, including electronic and LED signs, carved stone, billboards, and printed materials. Closely aligned with the feminist art movement, Holzer’s oeuvre provokes public debate and illuminates social and political injustice. Celebrated for her inimitable use of language and interventions in the public sphere, Holzer creates a powerful tension between the realms of feeling and knowledge, with a practice that encompasses both individual and collective experiences of power and violence, vulnerability and tenderness.