An exhibition about life in a World War II Japanese concentration camp.
The word ‘kawat’ refers to the barbed wire that fenced in the internees in a Japanese concentration camp. Charles Burki produced a series of drawings of great quality ‘reporting’ his first-hand experiences as an internee. Wrapped in hospital linen, placed in a zinc container and finally enclosed in a teak chest, the drawings he made in Bandung lay buried for four whole years beneath the ground in a gateway at the camp. Everyone walked over them. And in 1946 Charles got them safely back again.
On the initiative of publishing house Xtra, a new and revised edition of Charles Burki’s book 'Achter de kawat' is being published to accompany this exhibition.
