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PALMA DE MALLORCA,
Spain
La Caja Blanca is
presenting a solo exhibition by Irish photographer and video
artist Richard Mosse through Nov.25.
In a time when war-torn
cities and landscapes devastated by nature fill the newspapers
and television programs we consume, this young artist questions
the validity of the images distributed by the media industry as
a means of communicating the reality of human suffering.
Mosse's photographs
show devastated landscapes and schoolrooms crumbling onto the
classroom desks. What strikes the viewer is not the human
suffering that took place, but an overwhelming sense of
stillness, serenity and stunning beauty.
The videos go even
further, with Yani Intifada (2005) and Jew on a Ball
(2006) depicting interviews with the inhabitants of these
locations.
Mosse's photographs
and video pieces have been taken in locations such as Bosnia,
Ramallah, Beirut, Kosovo, Iran and Pakistan's Northwest Frontier
Province.
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