Artist Talk: Richard Mosse
Richard Mosse, photographer
Wed, 2/25 · 5:00 pm—7:00 pm · The Grand Hall, Princeton University Art Museum
Humanities Initiative, European Cultural Studies
Irish photographer and video artist Richard Mosse will discuss and screen selections from his recent project Broken Specter (2022), which centers on the devastating effect of deforestation in the Amazon.
Mosse is known for investigating the documentary status of photography. His work has spanned a range of topics, from the extractive technologies responsible for environmental destruction to the use of heat-sensing photographic apparatuses for the purpose of surveillance. In his practice, Mosse routinely probes the relationship between image, evidence, and empathy.
This event is free and open to the public. It has been organized by PhD Candidates Florian Endres and Maggie Hire and made possible by the Princeton Humanities Initiative’s focus on “Media & Meaning: Humanities in the World.” Additional support has been provided by: European Cultural Studies (ECS), Media+Modernity, Brazil LAB, and the Department of Art & Archaeology. Thanks also to the Princeton University Art Museum.
Bio:
Richard Mosse (b. 1980, Ireland) employs the language of documentary photography to draw attention to overlooked yet urgent stories.
He has used various imaging technologies to document environmental devastation in remote regions of the Amazon; the mass migration of refugees across Europe, the Middle East and North Africa; bitter conflict over rare earth minerals in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo; the US military’s occupation of Saddam Hussein’s palace complexes in Iraq; illegal immigration along the US-Mexican border; and the missing persons crisis in post-war Balkan nations, among other subjects.
Mosse’s work has been the subject of recent solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., Barbican Art Gallery in London, and the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne. Recent survey exhibitions were held at Kunsthalle Bremen (2022) and MAST Foundation, Bologna (2021). Mosse was the recipient of the Prix Pictet 2017, the winner of the 2014 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, and represented Ireland at the Venice Biennale in 2013. His publications include The Castle (MACK, 2018), Incoming (MACK, 2017), and Infra (Aperture Foundation, 2012).
To read Richard Mosse’s full biography, please visit Jack Shainman Gallery’s website.
