The culmination of a three-year expedition through the conflicted and war-torn landscape of the Democratic Republic of Congo, Richard Mosse’s exhibition, ‘The Enclave’ is an immersive, maze-like film installation depicting the realities of war in shocking but often beautiful detail.
The exhibition comprises six large-scale projections on suspended screens, shot on 16mm colour infra-red film, a discontinued stock developed by the military as a reconnaissance tool. Shot by Mosse, the film depicts the lush regions of North and South Kivu in Eastern Congo. The imagery is hallucinatory and dreamlike; an uncanny experience where everything is presented in accurate documentary detail, and yet the usual greens of jungle and forest are replaced by shimmering pinks and violets.
NGV International
Until February, 2016
Melbourne
Irish 1980, Higher ground, 2012, type C photograph, 227 x 185cm (image and sheet)
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Purchased NGV Foundation, 2014
© Richard Mosse
Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
