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Broken Spectre (2022) is a dreamlike immersive video artwork that forms an extensive record of widespread yet unseen fronts of deforestation and industrialized ecocide in the Amazon, unveiled using a range of powerful scientific imaging technologies, at the tipping point of this crucial ecosystem’s erasure.
SF/Arts Curator Insight
The Minnesota Street Project launches its new, large-scale video screening space with the U.S. premiere of Richard Mosse's “Broken Spectre”. Documenting years of systematic destruction through a wide array of photographic techniques, Mosse bears witness to the massive scale and multi-pronged devastation gaining speed and effect in the Amazon rainforest. Ignoring the complexity of the Amazonian biome's interdependence, the forest is illegally mined, logged, and burned, its rivers poisoned for small amounts of gold, and indigenous peoples displaced, while the forest moves closer to a catastrophic tipping point for the global ecosystem. This 74-minute, multi-screen installation sounds tough to watch, but important to witness.
Mark Taylor
SF/Arts Curator
Minnesota Street Project
Located in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch district, the Minnesota Street Project offers economically sustainable spaces for art galleries, artists and related nonprofits. Inhabiting three warehouses, the Project seeks to retain and strengthen San Francisco's contemporary art community in the short term, while developing an internationally recognized arts destination in the long term.
Located in San Francisco’s historic Dogpatch district, the Minnesota Street Project offers economically sustainable spaces for art galleries, artists and related nonprofits. Inhabiting three warehouses, the Project seeks to retain and strengthen San Francisco's contemporary art community in the short term, while developing an internationally recognized arts destination in the long term.