Shuster Moseley

Lives and works in London, UK

Artist statement

Shuster + Moseley explore the dual psycho-physical nature of light through mediation, exposure and spectrality. Working through constellations of optical lenses and large-scale prismic glass sculptures, their practice is a sustained enquiry into light’s pharmakological potential to fragment and dimensionalise experience. Within a context of attentional conditioning and mediated saturation, their work suspends the lens and screen as interfaces of perceptual enframing, deconstructing the photographic apparatus to create instruments of spectral articulation and durational environments of exposure. Shuster + Moseley is the UK-based practice of Claudia Moseley and Edward Shuster. The duo began their collaboration in 2007 after meeting on a tree-dwelling protest site. Their early work, exhibited in squats and interstitial spaces, initiated an ongoing experiential and environmental enquiry into technological mediation. Expanding the scope of intervention, they have since created large-scale, site-responsive works within sites of hypermediacy.

Artwork

• Once Brought Inside the Body the Light Brings About the Transformation of Itself, 2024. Hand-blown glass lenses, optical coating, steel cabling, LEDs
• Body of Light, 2023. Glass, steel, HID lamps
• (Plan of the Path of Light) In the House of the hidden Places, 2021. Glass, steel
• Empty Mirror of the Sky, 2023. Glass, steel, projector, sound
• Horizon of Day and Night, 2020. Hand-cut laminated optical glass, low-iron glass, steel
• Twilight Language, 2019. Glass, LED, Steel