Shuster + Moseley explore the dual nature of light—at once physical and metaphysical—through a sustained enquiry into the phenomena of mediation, exposure and spectrality. Through constellations of suspended lenses and large-scale prismic glass sculptures, their practice engages light’s pharmakological potential to both fragment and dimensionalise experience.
In an age of attentional conditioning and hypermediacy, their work seeks an alchemy of light to subvert the lens and screen as interfaces of perceptual enframing, creating luminous instruments of attunement and meditative environments that re-implicate the mind and body in time and space.
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Shuster Moseley is the London-based practice of Claudia Moseley and Edward Shuster. The duo began their collaboration in 2010 after meeting on a tree-dwelling protest site in the Brecon Beacons. Their early work, exhibited in squats and interstitial spaces, initiated their ongoing experiential and environmental response to technologies of control. They have since created large-scale, site-specific works at locations including the Pyramids of Giza, Times Square, Noor Riyadh, Lumiere Durham, and Al Ula. In 2023, they were invited to participate in British Vogue’s ‘Forces for Change’. Their work is held in public and private collections internationally.
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Claudia Moseley’s practice emerges from a long-standing enquiry into the nature of the lens—as both a perceptual device and a psychological interface. With a family heritage in film and photography, she developed an early, intimate awareness of reality as a constructed image: a world observed from an attentive distance, where the apparatus was always visible. This insight crystallised in the photographic darkroom, where she began deconstructing the camera to dimensionalise light, lens and projection into embodied spatial experience.
Following formal training in Fine Art at Goldsmiths, Moseley pursued Environmental Anthropology to deepen her material investigations into the entanglement of ecology, embodiment, and vision. This enquiry has evolved through the lens of parenthood, drawing on psychoanalytic perspectives to examine the crisis of attention and identity precipitated by screen-based media. She traces a line from the alienation of the cinematic apparatus to the isolating effects of phone culture, reconfiguring the lens as a powerful psychic object for our age: a seductive frame that promises connection, yet operates by structuring and perpetuating a fundamental sense of distance.
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Edward Shuster is an artist-philosopher whose work traces a continuum from Eastern and Western esoteric traditions to contemporary technologies of perception. His early research into Renaissance cosmologies explored the use of graphic forms as alchemical praxis—tools for unifying metaphysics, science, and art. This foundational interest in how symbolic systems mediate reality led to an investigation of the ontology of light through applied disciplines. His research in cosmotechnics, incorporating a media archaeology of the instruments that shape our relation to the cosmos, has been deepened through ongoing scientific dialogue, including collaborations with the Institute for Computational Cosmology, neuroscientists, and optical imaging specialists.
In exploring the architectures of consciousness—counterpointed by a sustained meditation practice—Shuster has diagnosed how the digital interface compresses perception into states of hypermediacy. In his doctoral thesis, 'The Pharmakology of Light-Time', he analyzed how the “light-time” of instantaneous information induces a crisis of attention and perceptual disorientation, proposing a "shattering disappropriation" of the logic of interface. As philosophical advisor to Dust Identity, Shuster works at the intersection of AI, cryptographic architectures, and symbolic infrastructure—developing systems that aim to restore trust and cultivate a new symbolic ecology in an age of digital dissociation.
By whatever binds the world, by that it must be freed - Hevajra Tantra