Umfang:
576 ungezählte Seiten
Ausgabe:
First edition
ISBN:
9781910164778
Inhalt:
The major humanitarian and political issue of our time is migration and with his latest video work, Irish artist Richard Mosse has created a searing, haunting and unique artwork. Projected across three 8 meter wide screens, the film is accompanied by a loud dissonant soundtrack to create an overwhelming, immersive experience. Moving from footage of a live battle inside Syria, in which a US aircraft strafes Daesh positions on the ground, to a scene showing pathologists extracting DNA from the bones of unidentified corpses of refugees drowned off the Aegean island of Leros, the film opens a testimonial space of historical document - bearing witness to significant chapters in recent events - mediated through an advanced weapons-grade camera technology. Narratives of the journeys made by refugees and migrants across the Middle East, North Africa, and Europe, are captured using an extremely powerful thermal camera not generally available to the public. This super-telephoto military camera can perceive the human body beyond 50km day or night, reading the biological trace of human life. The camera translates the world into a heat signature of apparent temperature difference, producing a dazzling monochrome halo-image which alludes literally and metaphorically to hypothermia, climate change, weapons targeting, border surveillance, xenophobia, and the "bare life" of stateless people
Sprache:
Französisch
Fachgebiete:
Allgemeines
Schlagwort(e):
Mosse, Richard 1980-
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Video-Installation
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Dokumentarfotografie
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Thermografie
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Syrien
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Bürgerkrieg
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Flucht
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Migration
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Fotografie
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Bildband
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