In the United States, any citizen may request government documents through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request; however, records are often delivered with black rectangles obscuring classified information. Redactions illustrate the existence of facts that cannot be known.
This exhibition features artworks that utilize redacted text, spaces, and elements as a tactic to both illustrate and obscure the precarious nature of truth. The artworks not only question the nature of power, information, and censorship but also present documents as a facet of modern-day warfare and surveillance.
Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.