Rachel Howard : repetition is truth : Via Dolorosa / edited by Jason Beard, Amie Corry ; artworks, Rachel Howard ; [interview] Anna Moszynska/Rachel Howard ; [essay] Mario Codognato.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Beard, Jason, editor.

Corry, Amie, editor.

Codognato, Mario, contributor.

Moszynska, Anna, interviewer.

Newport Street Gallery, host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Howard, Rachel, 1969---Exhibitions.

Howard, Rachel.

Howard, Rachel, 1969---Interviews.

Howard, Rachel, 1969-.

Stations of the Cross in art--Exhibitions.

Stations of the Cross in art.

Genre:

Interviews.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

52 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm

Other Title:

Repetition is truth

Via Dolorosa

Place of Publication:

[London, England] : Other Criteria Books, [2018]

Summary:

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.

Contains:

Howard, Rachel, 1969- Paintings. Selections.

ISBN:

190696789X

9781906967895

OCLC:

1031191658