Details

Subject(s)

• Howard, Rachel 1969-—Exhibitions [Browse]
• Howard, Rachel 1969-—Interviews [Browse]
• Stations of the Cross in art—Exhibitions [Browse]

Editor

• Beard, Jason [Browse]
• Corry, Amie [Browse]

Contributor

• Codognato, Mario [Browse]

Interviewer

• Moszynska, Anna [Browse]

Host institution

• Newport Street Gallery [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Interviews [Browse]

Contains

Howard, Rachel, 1969- Paintings. Selections. [Browse]

Summary note

Religion, repetition, mortality and violence -- particularly controlled violence -- are enduring themes in Howard's work. These fourteen, large-scale paintings are accompanied by a small 2005 study of Ali Shallal al-Qaisi, the Iraqi detainee who was photographed being subjected to torture at the hands of American soldiers in Abu Ghraib prison in 2003. When these now-infamous images of Ali Shallal al-Qaisi -- hooded and standing on a box in a cruciform position -- were released in 2004, Howard took particular note of the box. She explains: "The box is almost like a plinth -- I was thinking about the cross, the Crucifixion, and how it related to this box as a twenty-first century place of horror, humiliation and human rights atrocities, and I couldn't help but connect the two." As one moves between the Stations, the box variously emerges, or appears almost submerged in the paint, before eventually vanishing.

Notes

• Artist interviewed by Anna Moszynska.
• Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Newport Street Gallery, London, February 21-May 28, 2018.

Other title(s)

• Repetition is truth
• Via Dolorosa

ISBN

• 190696789X (hardcover)
• 9781906967895 (hardcover)

OCLC

1031191658

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