Acid Rain Production is pleased to present "Rentyhorn" by Swiss-Haitian interdisciplinary artist/activist Sasha Huber. Sasha is a member of the Trans-atlantic Comittee, "De-mounting Louis Agassiz", which lead to her mountain top site-specific intevention whereby she flew to the top of the Alpine Peak 'Agassizhorn' (3946 metres above sea level) with a metal plaque that has an engraved portrait of a 17th Century South Carolinian slave, Renty.

With this act, the fact is to be commemorated that Swiss-born naturalist and glaciologist Louis Agassiz (1807-1873) was an influential racist and a pineering thinker of apartheid and that therefore the Agassizhorn ought to be renamed "Rentyhorn" in honour of the Congolese-born slave of whom Agassiz ordered a photo to be taken on a South Caronlina plantation, in order "to prove the inferiority of the black race" and persons with similar destinies as Renty.

After the completion of this project, Sasha Huber and members of "De-mounting Louis Agassiz" submitted a request for the plaque to be fixed to the rocks of the summit permanently and for the mountain to be renamed, to those boards forming the judicial context of the Agassizhorn: the authorities of the communes of Grindelwald, Guttannen und Fieschertal, the authorities of the cantons of Berne and Valais as well as the executive board and advisory committee of the public trust reponsible for UNESCO's world natural heritage area "Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn".

Sasha Huber lives and works in Helsinki, Finland.

For more information on Sasha Huber please visit, www.sashahuber.com

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