carlier | gebauer is very pleased to exhibit large format landscape photographic works by Irish artist Richard Mosse on the occasion of Gallery Weekend Berlin opening 1 May, 2015 from 6-9pm.

Richard Mosse has developed a body of photographic and filmic work that is both unabashedly aesthetic and fraught with political and ethical implications. He offers a radical rethinking of how to depict a conflict as complex and intractable as the ongoing war in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Treading a thin line between the conceptual and the affective, Mosse transforms the image into a site of crisis and of resistance.

Mosse depicts eastern Congo’s rich topography, inscribed with the traces of conflicting interests, to show the ways in which this region’s conflict has affected the landscape, and is expressed in land use, its agriculture, forests, and national parks.

These photographs were captured using discontinued color infrared film originally designed for military camouflage detection, reconnaissance, and targeting. Throughout the 20th Century, the medium also found civilian applications in the land sciences, including hydrology, farming, and mineralogy. It was used to reveal environmental factors otherwise imperceptible