Mosse’s disturbingly, jarringly beautiful film and photographs from the Democratic Republic of Congo were first shown at the Irish Pavilion at the last Venice Biennale. The artist used a type of military surveillance film to shoot The Enclave, which focuses on the ongoing fighting in the country’s eastern region. The film transforms green hues to a lurid pink startlingly at odds with the brutality of its subject.
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