carlier | gebauer is pleased to present Broken Spectre, the gallery’s fifth solo exhibition by Irish artist Richard Mosse. Working between documentary forms and contemporary art, Mosse has consistently leveraged photographic technologies in reflexive ways to create potent forms of storytelling. 

Broken Spectre is the result of careful study of ecocide in the Brazilian Amazon. An estimated 99% of deforestation in the Amazon results from illegal activities, explicitly encouraged by the Brazilian government and global investment, yet the scale and effects of such ecological changes are not easily revealed through conventional photography. Illegal logging, land invasion into protected forests and indigenous territories, massive meat and soybean farming, and illegal gold mining occur on a vast scale, devastating the world’s most biodiverse rainforest and contributing directly to climate change. Mosse has searched for activated ways of photographing these processes.