This was really the biggest challenge I’ve ever faced: to try to turn this into adequate art, into something that tells a story powerfully, hopefully in new and disarming ways. It’s not just in terms of the vast scale of climate, which is almost an abstraction – it’s so much bigger than us – but also how normalised these environmental crimes have become, how widespread. Any storyteller, any artist, will struggle to find a way to represent something that’s beyond human perception. It’s time to gear up and try to really unpack this aspect of global heating, of climate change.’ But it’s such a complex subject. Then the forest started being burned at a huge scale across Brazil. I wanted to take some time for myself and make these intimate portraits of the natural world. My work is incessant, demanding lots of travel into sometimes difficult situations. That project was a restorative step for me. I had already started a project the year before in the cloud forests of Ecuador and Peru, making photographs of rainforest biome captured on a macro scale at night, illuminated by ultraviolet lights, which make interdependent life forms fluoresce in ways that I found fascinating. That year, there was a very long dry season, what they call ‘burn season’. RICHARD MOSSE: In summer of 2019, the Brazilian Amazon was being burned on an exponential level. HANS ULRICH OBRIST: When did you start this project, what was the trigger? This feature was originally published in Fact’s F/W 2022 issue, which is available to buy here. ![]() In this exclusive feature, originally published in the F/W 2022 issue of Fact as the work was on display at 180 Studios, Mosse talks to Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries, about the origins of, and inspirations for, this major work. With COP28 taking place in the UAE this week amid calls to phase out the use of fossil fuels completely, Mosse’s work is more important than ever. ![]() Seeking to overcome the inherent challenges of representing climate change to make visible the world’s most crucial yet ignored ecological warzone, Broken Spectre, made in collaboration with cinematographer Trevor Tweeten and composer Ben Frost, is award-winning artist Mosse’s most ambitious project to date. The Irish artist on his vital work Broken Spectre, which documents the environmental destruction at the frontline of the climate crisis.įilmed in remote parts of the Brazilian Amazon, Richard Mosse’s Broken Spectre is the result of five years of careful documentation of environmental crimes using a range of scientific imaging technologies.
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