Richard Mosse: Tutsi Town, North Kivu, Eastern Congo, 2010
Mosse stole the show at the 2013 Venice Biennale art exhibition with The Enclave, a video installation filmed in the DRC with 16 mm Aerochrome. To gather his material, he took a cinematographer and composer and embedded with armed fighters. The resulting images are striking. They include rebels wearing bubblegum-tinted fatigues amid dreamy, psychedelic landscapes. “The idea was to use this medium to see into the unseen, to reveal the hidden and make visible the invisible of this forgotten conflict,” Mosse told CNN.
The photographer, who has also worked in Iraq, says the goal of his groundbreaking work is to bring “two counterworlds into collision: art’s potential to represent narratives so painful that they exist beyond language, and photography’s capacity to document specific tragedies and communicate them to the world.” Mosse has certainly done that, catching the eyes and perhaps the consciences of viewers.
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