Richard Mosse
27 Sep - 12 Oct 2014
Poison Glen, South Kivu, eastern Congo, 2012
digital C print
50 x 80 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery. © Richard Mosse
Mountain formations near Bunyakiri, South Kivu, in a landscape populated by FDLR rebels and their dependents. Shortly after this photograph was taken, in early March 2012, armed men from Raiya Mutomboki massacred 32 unarmed civilians, mainly Hutus, in Bunyakiri. The FDLR carried out reprisal massacres in May of the same year, killing 51 unarmed civilians in nearby villages. These tit-for-tat massacres have led to a series of reprisal massacres, the largest of which saw a death toll of 242 unarmed civilians. The violence has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, who have fled violence and take refuge in squalid conditions within sprawling camps that lack adequate sanitation.
digital C print
50 x 80 inches
Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery. © Richard Mosse
Mountain formations near Bunyakiri, South Kivu, in a landscape populated by FDLR rebels and their dependents. Shortly after this photograph was taken, in early March 2012, armed men from Raiya Mutomboki massacred 32 unarmed civilians, mainly Hutus, in Bunyakiri. The FDLR carried out reprisal massacres in May of the same year, killing 51 unarmed civilians in nearby villages. These tit-for-tat massacres have led to a series of reprisal massacres, the largest of which saw a death toll of 242 unarmed civilians. The violence has displaced hundreds of thousands of people, who have fled violence and take refuge in squalid conditions within sprawling camps that lack adequate sanitation.
RICHARD MOSSE
The Enclave
27 September - 12 October 2014
A production with ORF musikprotokoll & Kunsthaus Graz in cooperation with steirischer herbst.
In the framework of ECAS – Networking Tomorrow’s Art For An Unknown Future, Winner project ECAS Call 2012, working period 2 “Bridging”
Free admission!
Co-Curator: Susanne Niedermayr, ORF musikprotokoll, Head of ECAS Network activities
Project coordinator: Katrin Bucher Trantow
Location: Space04
For two years, the Irish film-maker and photographer Richard Mosse travelled in eastern Congo together with cameraman Trevor Tweeten, trailing rebel groups and visiting places plagued by violence and terror. So far, more than five million people have been killed in a civil war that has been raging since the end of the 90s.
“The Enclave” is a film installation that condenses authentic soundscapes and the terrifying, eerily coloured images captured on 16mm infrared film into an uncanny elegy to a nightmare known as war.
When we see tanks driving around and people burying the dead in “The Enclave”, then it is not in the manner of the war reporter’s documentary material, but rather as an artistic, personal approach to this horror. The installation was on show at last year’s Venice Biennale and is now set to screen as an Austrian premiere at musikprotokoll at the steirischer herbst festival.
The Enclave
27 September - 12 October 2014
A production with ORF musikprotokoll & Kunsthaus Graz in cooperation with steirischer herbst.
In the framework of ECAS – Networking Tomorrow’s Art For An Unknown Future, Winner project ECAS Call 2012, working period 2 “Bridging”
Free admission!
Co-Curator: Susanne Niedermayr, ORF musikprotokoll, Head of ECAS Network activities
Project coordinator: Katrin Bucher Trantow
Location: Space04
For two years, the Irish film-maker and photographer Richard Mosse travelled in eastern Congo together with cameraman Trevor Tweeten, trailing rebel groups and visiting places plagued by violence and terror. So far, more than five million people have been killed in a civil war that has been raging since the end of the 90s.
“The Enclave” is a film installation that condenses authentic soundscapes and the terrifying, eerily coloured images captured on 16mm infrared film into an uncanny elegy to a nightmare known as war.
When we see tanks driving around and people burying the dead in “The Enclave”, then it is not in the manner of the war reporter’s documentary material, but rather as an artistic, personal approach to this horror. The installation was on show at last year’s Venice Biennale and is now set to screen as an Austrian premiere at musikprotokoll at the steirischer herbst festival.