Annex: Richard Mosse

Broken Spectre

Broken Spectre is an immersive film installation by Richard Mosse that shows the devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers.

The devastation in the Amazon rainforest and the climate change it triggers tend to unfold in ways that are too vast to comprehend, too minute to perceive and too normalised to see. In an attempt to render the scale and urgency of the Amazon’sextensive, impending collapse, Richard Mosse’s most ambitious work to date employs a dazzling array of photographic techniques. Through multispectral cameras that emulate satellite imaging technology, ultraviolet botanical studies, hypnotically vivid aerial maps and heat-sensitive analogue film Mosse renders the invisible visible.

Propelled by an enchanting soundtrack by Ben Frost, this experimental documentary also shows the human side of the tragedy. From indigenous communities fighting to survive, to Brazilian cowboys who deliberately burn down their environment to create pastures for livestock that can be sold at international meat and leather markets.

Featured in The Annex

In 2021, The Enclave (2013) by Richard Mosse featured in the Annex as part of Double Act. Broken Specter is his most ambitious work so far and for the first time in the Netherlands as part of Drawing from Nature. The film lasts a total of 67 minutes and is played in full 4 times a day. Check the starting times if you want to watch the film from beginning till end.

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Credits

Installation view, Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre, 2024
Jack Shainman Gallery, 46 Lafayette Street, New York, NY

© Richard Mosse. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Photo: Dan Bradica.