Meurer, Ulrich2022-06-212022-06-212020https://meiner.de/artikel/1000108422https://mediarep.org/handle/doc/19894While border surveillance produces geopolitical realities and distinctions between types of human life, Richard Mosse’s video installation INCOMING (2017) uses a military high-grade thermal camera to challenge this onto-political project. Recording refugee camps and crossings via the Mediterranean into Europe, his techno-images’ specific mosaic structure, tactility, and luminous flatness evoke the visual mode of Byzantine icons, thus switching from a paranoid, invasive world/view to an economy of mediation and contact with the Other.engTechnobilderGrenzüberwachungFlüchtlingetechno-imagesborder surveillancerefugees60030010.28937/100010842210.25969/mediarep/187481869-1366