13 – Shuster + Moseley »The Passing-Through«

A constellation of lenses mediates two phase-shifting time-lapse videos of the sun’s passage over the course of a day, inverted and mirrored along a spectral horizon. The result is a dynamic light-mobile that unfolds through this entwined, liminal passage of light-time. The mediation of time through the lenses speaks to the increasing governance and codification of attention through our perceptual technologies. Yet the horizon is a disjunction: the passage of light-time is out of synchrony, a dislocated temporality at the edge of technical enframing. The work sets our sights toward this horizon that is forever out of reach, and thereby orients.

Shuster + Moseley explore the dual nature of light – at once physical and psychophysical – through a sustained enquiry into the phenomena of mediation, exposure and spectrality. Through constellations of optical lenses and large-scale prismic glass sculptures, their practice engages 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.