Podcast | Local weather disaster: photographer Richard Mosse on environmental crime in the Amazon | The Week in Artwork


Richard Mosse’s Platon, jap Democratic Republic of Congo (2012). The image depicts a farm in close proximity to Bihambwe, Masisi Territory, North Kivu, the place the loaded pastureland is fiercely fought around in an escalating territorial conflict
© Richard Mosse. Assortment Jack Shainman

This 7 days: ecocide in Brazil. In a unique in-depth interview marking a retrospective at Fondazione MAST (until eventually 29 September) in Bologna, Italy, and an exhibition at the Jack Shainman Gallery (right up until 15 May possibly) in New York, the artist Richard Mosse discusses his images and forthcoming film set up picturing the scale of the destruction of the Amazonian rainforest.


Richard Mosse’s Sawmill, Jaci Paraná, Condition of Rondônia, Brazil, 2020
© Richard Mosse. Courtesy of the artist and carlier | gebauer, Berlin/Madrid

Mosse also talks about his previously photographic and film series on the themes of war, displacement and migration.


Rachel Maclean’s upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop (2021)
Picture: Amelia Claudia, courtesy of Jupiter Artland

And in this episode’s Function of the Week, the artist Rachel Maclean talks about her new operate for Jupiter Artland, the sculpture park in close proximity to Edinburgh, in the context of Hieronymus Bosch’s The Back garden of Earthly Delights.


Hieronymus Bosch’s The Backyard of Earthly Delights (1490–1500)
Museo del Prado, Madrid

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