Love is the Drug
Artist
Richard Mosse
Irish, born 1980
Date2012
MediumDigital C-print
Dimensionsheight and width: 50 × 96 in. (127 × 243.8 cm)
frame: 52 × 98 × 3 in. (132.1 × 248.9 × 7.6 cm)
frame: 52 × 98 × 3 in. (132.1 × 248.9 × 7.6 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LinePurchased with funds from the Art Trust Fund Endowment
Object number2013.13
On View
Not on viewMosse’s landscapes are captured through infrared film originally developed for aerial military surveillance to detect camouflage. This film changes the vegetation’s appearance from green to surreal tones of pink and red, simultaneously beautiful and utterly unfamiliar. Mosse says he wants to “bring two counter worlds into collision,” setting art’s potential to highlight the beauty of a scene against documentary photography’s goal of pursuing the “truth.”
[L Dougherty 2022 Reinstallation]ProvenanceCreated 2012; collection of the artist; [Jack Shainman Gallery, New York]; sold to NCMA, 2013.
Published ReferencesHelena Feder, ed., “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art" (Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021), illus (color) 2-3 (large detail).
Terry Kennedy, "You Are the Rover Running through the Valley of My Heart" in “You Are the River: Literature Inspired by the North Carolina Museum of Art,” edited by Helena Feder. Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 2021, illus (color) 18-19.
North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection," (Raleigh, NC; North Carolina Museum of Art, 2024), illus. (color) 88-89.Exhibition HistoryRaleigh, NC, North Carolina Museum of Art, "The People's Collection, Reimagined," May 1, 2023–December 4, 2023. Object Rights Statement
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