Truth Before Power, 2004

This edition portfolio was published alongside Jenny Holzer’s eponymous exhibition at Kunsthaus Bregenz in 2004. The exhibition’s subject was the United States’ foreign policy in the Middle East, with the artist’s xenon projections featuring excerpts from declassified (but still heavily redacted) U.S. government documents, Henri Cole’s poem To the Forty-third President, and highlights from Holzer’s own writing. The four prints this edition is comprised of are photographs of Holzer’s projections at four different locations in Austria: the Rhomberg rock quarry in Hohenems, Kanisfluh in Vorarlberg, the Kunsthaus Bregenz, and the Old Parish Church of Saint Nicholas in Lech, respectively.