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    A mosaic of the character Toad of Toad Hall on top of cardboard on the left hand side and butcher shop tiles on the right hand side. The cardboard is engraved with the image of a car, but it isn't very clear. The work is in a aluminium v-slot frame.
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    Infinite Customisation I, Joe Moss, 2023, aluminium v- slot profile, cardboard, tiles, mosaic, 57 x 75 cm

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    A piece of engraved cardboard that displays lots of small engravings. The engravings depict the internet noise from online goth subculture groups, including cartoon ghosts, chains, Kuromi, reversed words, hearts. The engravings aren't entirely legible. The work is in an aluminium v-slot frame.
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    Infinite Customisation II, Joe Moss, 2023, aluminium v-slot profile, cardboard, 43 x 73 cm

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    An assembly of aluminium v-slot frame consisting of a laptop screen positioned in front of engraved cardboard. The cardboard is incomprehensible but there are some organic shapes that look a bit like leaves. The laptop screen shows what you would see behind it if it wasn't there, almost like a window. Occasionally 3D birds fly across the laptop screen. The aluminium frame holds miniature plastic trees from railway sets and springy lichen.
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    Real Nature, Joe Moss, 2022, laser cut cardboard, aluminium v-slot, laptop screen, lichen, fake trees, 73 x 63 cm

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    A grotesque mosaic caricature of a person in profile. The person is smiling, and the mosaic is in the style of 1800 satirical cartoons. It is stuck to an old cardboard panel from a box used for shipping. The assembly is housed in an aluminium v-slot frame.
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    Sincerely a mosaic on some old cardboard but with a really cool frame, Joe Moss, 2022, mosaic on cardboard, aluminium v-slot frame

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    A person made up in Horror Prosthetics stands in a wheelbarrow in a dingy underground carpark at night. The walls are covered in graffiti, there is flytipped rubbish all around. The person looks directly at the camera and points one finger to the floor and another to the ceiling.
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    Screenshot from Horror Flick, Joe Moss, 2023, video, 00:01:48

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Joe Moss – MA/MFA

I am a contemporary artist and trained mosaicist working across media, mainly sculpture and video.

I like to bring together different fictional registers to get to a sense of the strangeness of how reality works. For example, bringing together streetwear and high fantasy, or seeing how literary characters and their legacy struggle in our contemporary context. My core techniques include choreographed video, and assemblages of contemporary material and noise from the internet alongside craft techniques.

I see these confusing and overlaid fictional registers as ever present- as much a part of the contemporary stream of constant information as materials themselves. I invite the audience to see this as well, and recognise that our experiences of time and self are changing.