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Jun 2, 2013 · Now he’s taken that project a step further by creating a documentary film called The Enclave. Shot entirely on 16mm Aerochrome film, the footage reveals both the unseen infrared bouncing off...
Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, The Enclave is an immersive, six-screen video art installation by Irish contemporary artist Richard Mosse.
- The Conflict in Congo
- Why We Don’T Hear About This Conflict
- A Little About Richard Mosse
- Kodak Aerochrome
- Unusual Colors
- Mosse’s Installation
- Journeys in The Congo
- Return to UK & Challenges
- A Final Trip to Congo & Near-Death Experience
- Venice Biennale, 2013
Congo’s conflict has, depending on your version of history, been going (on and off) for over 100 years, following the annexation of the Congo by Belgium’s King Leopold in 19081. The conflict has continued more consistently since 1997. Like the mainstream media, the international political community has largely turned its back on the Congo. Recurren...
The works are rendered in vivid tones of lavender, crimson and pink. Mosse utilized this film to document the ongoing conflict in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo3, in which 5.4 million people have died since 1998 and is fundamentally ignored by the mass media4. The reason why the news never reaches mainstream society is partly topographical. C...
Richard Mosse is known throughout his conceptual documentary photography career for challenging society using photojournalism. This was laid bare in his work in the Democratic Republic of Congo – Enclave, which took the world by surprise in the same measure as the conflict it explores. Mosse gained worldwide recognition for these infrared images de...
For Enclave, Richard Mosse employed a large-format camera alongside the infamous Kodak Aerochrome film, which is now discontinued. Kodak Aerochrome infrared film was developed in the 1940s by the U.S. military to identify camouflaged figures. The film was hard to use, even for the military. Coupling that with the fact that DR. Congo is a sizeable i...
Traditionally, the palette of war photography has been portrayed as brown, green, black, and red. But in Enclave, Richard Mosse uses camouflage, dirt, guns, and blood. He shone new light on the way conflict is covered. Explaining why he uses these new approaches, Richard Mosse states:
Mosse’s work comprises six double-sided screens installed in a large darkened room, thus producing a corporeally immersive experience. This disorienting and variegated art project is supposed to visually parallel eastern Congo’s complex conflict, bewildering expectations by compelling the audience to interact with the imagery from a collection of d...
During his journeys in the Congo, Mosse would stay in Catholic missions and interact with as many people as possible. And the more he interacted with people, the more he met more rebels, and the more complex his understanding of the situation became. Mosse could travel long distances to encounter rebels. He said: Most of the time, Mosse would spend...
When he returned to the U.K. from Congo, he started to look for means to convert the images into a film, but he was short of cash. Mosse said: But upon looking at the image of the landscape shot he had taken. Another problem was to find someone willing to process the film.
The artist took a trip back to Congo for cathartic reasons. Speaking about his ordeal when he went back to Congo, Richard Mosse said:
In 2013, Mosses participated in the Venice Biennale as an Ireland representative. He exhibited Enclave, explaining that the work aims to bring “two counter-worlds into collision: art’s potential to represent narratives so painful they exist beyond language, and photography’s capacity to document specific tragedies and communicate them to the world....
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Aug 27, 2015 · The Nasher Museum presented Richard Mosse’s The Enclave, an immersive 40-minute six-channel video installation shot in eastern Congo. The Central African nation of the Democratic Republic of Congo has endured nearly two decades of political instability, rampant corruption and an ongoing civil war.
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Nov 8, 2014 · Frequent massacres, human rights violations, and widespread sexual violence remain unaccounted for. In a kind of advocacy of seeing, The Enclave attempts to cast this forgotten tragedy in a new...
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Commissioned for the Irish representation at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, The Enclave is an immersive, six-screen video art installation by Irish contemporary artist Richard Mosse.
