5 JULY 2019 - 15 SEPTEMBER 2019

IN THE CROSS FIELD BETWEEN DOCUMENTARY AND ART, RICHARD MOSSE CHALLENGES OUR PERSPECTIVE ON CONFLICT AND DISASTER IN THE WORLD’S HOTSPOTS. IN HIS LATEST VIDEO INSTALLATION, ’INCOMING’, THE PRIZE-WINNING IRISH ARTIST, WHO AROUSED PUBLIC ATTENTION WITH ’THE ENCLAVE’, FOCUSSES ON THE FLOW OF REFUGEES TOWARDS EUROPE.

Richard Mosse, Incoming , 2014-2017 © Richard Mosse. Cour tesy of the ar t i s t , car l ie r I gebauer, Ber l in and Jack Shainman Gal lery, New York.

RICHARD MOSSE

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INCOMING

“The aesthetical element in art can be the moral imperative that generates change and raises questions – also about the most outrageous of topics.” – Richard Mosse

How do we in the Western world look at the disasters and conflicts of our time? This is one of the questions on which a lot of works by the Irish artist and photographer Richard Mosse are based. Through impressive video installations and large-format photographs, he brings into focus places and conflicts only fleetingly covered by the ever-changing news flow.

Military Camera Technology In his large video installation Incoming Richard Mosse documents the journey of refugees and migrants towards and in Europe using complex thermal camera technology. The camera enables him to take pictures at extreme distances and include events otherwise inaccessible to us. The camera was developed for military purposes and is used in connection with border control, searches and surveillance, but can also be used in military operations.

Due to the thermal technology, the black-white pictures seem almost luminescent, and the identity and skin colour of the documented individuals are blurred – despite the sharpness of the pictures. This gives the persons depicted an almost ghostlike appearance, as the pictures show them crossing dangerous waters, sleeping in temporary refugee camps and fighting to survive.

Richard Mosse states about his work: “The camera is intrusive of individual privacy, yet the imagery that this technology produces is so dehumanised – the person literally glows – that the medium anonymizes the subject in ways that are both insidious and humane.”

Between Photo Documentary and Contemporary ArtRichard Mosse is known for his experimental work, which challenges the relation between photo documentary and contemporary art. He created the exhibition Incoming together with Musician Ben Frost and Photographer Trevor Tweeten. It consists of a 53-minute film shown on a wall 16 metres long and chosen photographs from the series The Castle, some of which are more than three metres wide.

The exhibition is the result of a many-year commitment, where Richard Mosse stayed for longer periods at a time by the main gateways to Europe. Here people from Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan as well as Senegal and Somalia gathered to gain access to a safe and better future.

The exhibition Incoming will be shown at Kunstforeningen GL STRAND from 5 July to 15 September 2019. The opening will take place on 4 July at 17:00-21:00 and is open for everyone.

ABOUT RICHARD MOSSE

For a number of years, the Irish artist Richard Mosse has worked in conflict-ridden parts of the world, exploring how photo and video can communicate overlooked problems of a complex nature. He has received several awards for the extensive work The Enclave (2013), where he used Kodak’s aerochrome technology to document the age-long and bloody conflict in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Richard Mosse lives and works in New York and Berlin. He holds a bachelor of English literature from King’s College London from 2001 and a master of cultural studies from London Consortium from 2003. In addition, he has a postgraduate in art from Goldsmiths, University of London, from 2005 and an MFA from Yale School of Art from 2008. He has exhibited in leading museums throughout the world. In 2013 he was Ireland’s representative at the Venice Biennale.

PRESS RELEASE RICHARD MOSSE5 JULY 2019 - 15 SEPTEMBER 2019

PRESS RELEASE RICHARD MOSSE5 JULY 2019 - 15 SEPTEMBER 2019

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Ins ta l la t ion v iew, Richard Mosse: Incoming , The Curve, Barbican Cent re, London, England, February 15 – Apr i l 23, 2017. Photo by Tr i s tan Fewings.

Richard Mosse, Incoming , 2014-2017 © Richard Mosse. Cour tesy of the ar t i s t , car l ie r I gebauer, Ber l in and Jack Shainman Gal lery, New York.

The exhibition has been realized with the support of Grosserer L.F. Foghts Fond, Statens Kunstfond and Københavns Kommune.