InAVator: Richard Mosse, Artist Features 07/06/2017 Artist Richard Mosse’s latest work uses technology as a vehicle to challenge perspectives of the refugee crisis unfolding in EMEA, marrying military-grade thermographic imaging with cinema-quality projection. Charlotte Ashley visits London’s Barbican arts centre to find out more.Artist Richard Mosse isn’t afraid to go the extra mile to challenge perceptions. “We’ve been arrested at gunpoint by Hamas in Gaza, travelled under the smuggling tunnels of Rafah and documented Saddam Hussein’s palaces in Iraq. We’ve also made art about homelessness in Oklahoma and the effect of the tsunami off the coast of Thailand,†reflects 39-year-old Mosse, following the opening of his latest project, ‘Incoming,’ at the Barbican Centre.The work, over two years in the making, evolves his use of military-level infrared imaging to create iconic pink-hued images of the war- torn fields of Congo in his previous installation, the Deutsche Börse Photography Prize-winning ‘The Enclave.’ Technology is once again the medium Mosse uses to immerse but also challenge the viewer, this time with images of refugees in locations including Syria, Greece and France presented in striking monochrome. Within the 52-minute film, footage of children playing in camps is juxtaposed with scenes of toddlers being rescued from sinking dinghies captured using a military-grade thermographic surveillance camera. Three 8m projection screens powered by Christie M-series projectors (using 0.67:1 short throw lenses) envelop the viewer in the narrative.Read the full article at InAVate Active.If you are not already registered then follow the quick sign up for your free subscription and immediate access to this article and the InAVate archive