HOMAGE TO ABU GHRAIB (Iraq, 2006)

Just as the great Columbian painter Fernando Botero previously did, Antonin Kratochvil reconstructs the torture of Iraqi prisoners in Abu Ghraib. At the time the images of ill-treatment caused a wave of indignation around the world, and stained the reputation of the United States. They called up memories for Antonin Kratochvil, a Czech refugee, whose father was tortured in Stalinist camps.