Richard Mosse

Mosse’s studio in Casa Rustica, which has been transformed into an extensive photographic darkroom for analogue techniques, will be turned into a photographic installation involving three medium format 6x7cm slide projectors playing in sync. The installation will show Mosse’s work at the Academy over the course of the year, incorporating topographic, architectural, and street photography from Rome punctuated by aerial views of the city from 1958, before the city saw extensive urban growth, which the artist has gathered from the extensive aerial archives at the Aerofototeca Nazionale in Trastevere’s ICCD. Mosse borrows the principles of aerial stereoscopy, capturing two separate angles of view of the same subject, applying them to large format architectural photography made from eye level, with all its hyperfocal detail, to create unfamiliar forms produced by the overlapping differences between each image’s overlapping edges. Large format platinum palladium prints will also be on view. The installation will form an intimate meditation on time and space in the Eternal City.