Ariana Boussard-Reifel
Between the Lines
2007
Words removed from the White Supremacist book, RaHoWa (Racial Holy War)
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Ariana Boussard-Reifel
“A cheaply printed paperback with the words removed becomes a quite plea with the additional knowledge that it is a white supremacist bible and the words viciously and exactly describe the necessity of racial segregation. By imposing the doctrine of the book on itself (removing the black from the white) the book has been rendered meaningless, while still hinting at the hand of the maker. Its meaning is found in its absences and its voids as much as in what remains.
This work was made as a call to action to respond to the burgeoning white supremacist movement in my home state of Montana. I made several works, many in collaboration with my mother, which spoke to the patterns of hate in society. We began with nearly two thousand books from the World Church of the Creator, including, The White Man’s Bible and the book used for this piece, RaHoWa (Racial Holy War), and transformed them into art objects that counter their own ideology.”
– Ariana Boussard-Reifel