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Richard Mosse, The Castle – Sylvain Campeau, Human Traces

Ciel variable 110 - MIGRATION | Portfolios
Authors: Sylvain Campeau | Artists: Richard Mosse

[Fall 2018] By Sylvain Campeau [Excerpt] Presented in this year’s edition of the annual Scotiabank Contact Photography Festival in Toronto, this exhibition was probably the festival’s centrepiece.1 It is a collection of works that seem to emanate from two series produced by Irish photographer Richard Mosse: The Castle, from which no doubt the most important […]

Richard Mosse, The Enclave – Zoë Tousignant

Ciel variable 100 - REPLAY | Exhibition Reviews
Authors: Zoë Tousignant | Artists: Richard Mosse

May 6, 2019 [originally published in CV100 in Spring 2015] — One would have to be a seasoned cynic to be indifferent to Richard Mosse’s film installation The Enclave (2012–13). Visually, it is an impressionistic, six-screened montage of beautifully lurid hues of hot pink; politically, it reveals a heretofore unseen side of the conflict that has ravaged the Democratic Republic of Congo since 1998; and theoretically, it raises fundamental questions regarding the meaning and function of images of war…