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Sasha Grishin, Adjunct Professor of Art History, Australian National University

'Beautiful and terrifying': how artist Richard Mosse brings us the vast, significant and urgent story of the Amazon's destruction

Richard Mosse, Broken Spectre, 2022 (still). Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

Review: Richard Mosse: Broken Spectre, NGV International.

The Amazon is reaching a tipping point. Once a proportion of the rainforest is lost, it will no longer be able to hold the necessary moisture to create the rainfall to sustain itself. Massive dieback will occur with a devastating release of carbon into the atmosphere with a major global impact on climate change.

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