The Maltese ship that decorated the Nativity scene in St Peter’s Square this past Christmas memorialised the plight of the refugee, a haunting echo of the wars in Africa and the Middle East. Now Richard Mosse, too, is recalling to our minds a conflict that has been made banal by the ugly atonality of the imagery on screens and newsprint.
Mosse, whose work mixing art and photography had already garnered international acclaim with his magical-realist, infrared “war photography” from the Democratic Republic of Congo, has a new work, Incoming, showing at the Barbican (until April 23).
