Limerick School of Art & Design will host an artist’s talk by Richard Mosse on the George’s Quay campus on Friday 28 March 2014, 1-2pm. The artist will present an overview of his practice and current exhibition The Enclave at Ormston House and 6A Rutland Street.

Admission is free and booking is essential to info@ormstonhouse.com.

About The Enclave:

Throughout 2012, Richard Mosse and his collaborators Trevor Tweeten and Ben Frost travelled in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, infiltrating armed rebel groups in a war zone plagued by frequent ambushes, massacres and systematic sexual violence. The resulting installation, The Enclave, is the culmination of Mosses’ attempt to radically rethink war photography. It is a search for more adequate strategies to represent a forgotten African tragedy in which 5.4 million people have died of war-related causes in eastern Congo since 1998.

The Enclave immerses the viewer in a challenging and sinister world, posing aesthetic questions in a situation of profound human suffering. At the heart of the project, as Mosse states, is an attempt to bring “two counter-worlds into collision: art’s potential to represent narratives so painful that they exist beyond language, and photography’s capacity to document specific tragedies and communicate them to the world.”

Richard Mosse represented Ireland with The Enclave, a major new multi-media installation at the 55th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, The Pavilion of Ireland. The commissioner and curator is Anna O’Sullivan, Director of the Butler Gallery in Kilkenny, Ireland.

Image: detail from Safe From Harm, North Kivu, Eastern Congo (2012), digital C-print, courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery.