Centre PHI presents

Broken Spectre: A immersive installation by Richard Mosse

After being showcased at Studio 180 The Stand in London, at Photo Elysée in Lausanne, or at the Jack Shainman Gallery in New York, the PHI Centre presents the new work of Richard Mosse, the award-winning Irish artist. Broken Spectre consists of a 75-minute immersive video along with a selection of 10 photos by the artist.

Climate change is a well-present phenomenon and it affects the entire planet. Just in the last fifty years, within living memory, mass deforestation, carried out willfully by millions of people, has wiped out more than one-fifth of the original Amazon rainforest, the largest tropical rainforest in the world.

In 1975, only 1% of the original forest had been lost to human resource extraction. Today, we have lost almost 20%, leading to species extinction, affecting the world’s weather patterns and contributing to global warming.

[…] the film is both visceral and abstract, beautiful and horrifying. Broken Spectre is Mosse’s most powerful and consequential work yet. – Jonathan Griffin – The New York Times

About the installation

By combining a 75-minute video with a selection of large-format photos by the artist, Broken Spectre plunges the viewer into an unseen ecological catastrophe to reveal exponential environmental devastation in the Amazon Basin.

This dreamlike film installation shifts dramatically in scale and media to produce a visceral and emotional connection with the world’s largest tropical rainforest, the last great reservoir of biodiversity, being destroyed wholesale on multiple fronts to feed global markets and unsustainable corporate profit.

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