12/25/2023 0 Comments Spectre instaling![]() Iceland-based Australian sound artist Ben Frost recorded the roar of flames lashing at the forest of chainsaws and dying animals. There is no dialogue – no story as such – but sound is as much a part of the work. Iceland-based Australian sound artist Ben Frost strapped a sound recorder to trees that were being felled, and used ultra-sonic microphones to capture the sound of insects. The work, which runs for 74 minutes, is shown in enormous panorama in a dark room at the NGV, with a resolution that the gallery says has never been shown before at an artistic institution. The third screen offers deep close-ups of the forest floor, shot in brilliant colour – it almost looks like cells through a microscope. One shows overhead shots of the destruction of the forest on another – in black-and-white widescreen reminiscent of an old western – we watch humans, felling trees, riding on horseback, working in an abattoir and we visit the villages of the Yanomami people. If you are a storyteller, I feel that speaking about the environment is your duty now Richard Mosse ![]() Recorded in remote parts of the Brazilian Amazon – the focus of Mosse’s recent work Tristes Tropiques – the footage, directed by American cinematographer Trevor Tweeten, runs across three screens which sometimes merge. Irish-born, US-based photographic artist Richard Mosse with Broken Spectre. ![]()
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