Redaction

Jenny Holzer's Redaction paintings, created in 2005, are a series of silk-screened canvases. These works feature enlarged, declassified government documents that have been redacted. By presenting these altered documents, Holzer's art highlights the impossibility of fixed meaning and underscores the presence of multiple viewpoints within any given text. The term "redaction" itself refers to the act of altering written material to remove or obscure information. In biblical studies, "redaction criticism" is a method used to analyze how texts were assembled and modified by authors or editors to reveal their intentions.12345