Rachel Howard: Repetition is Truth - Via Dolorosa

Humanity's capacity for atrocity was laid bare during the Iraq war when images emerged of the humiliating treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib. One showed Ali Shallal al-Qaisi stood on a box, a hood pulled over his head, arms spread wide, with wires attached to his fingers and genitals.  A painting of that horrifying act opens Rachel Howard’s show at Newport Street Gallery. Brutal, painful, degrading.