Location: River Wear
A kaleidoscopic rainbow across the River Wear.
Body of Light takes inspiration from Sir Isaac Newton’s classic prism experiment and reanimates a mythic interpretation of the rainbow. Naturally occurring rainbows are defined by a line that runs from the sun, passes through the observer’s pupil and extends into the surrounding atmosphere. As a result, each person sees a unique rainbow depending on where they’re standing and the angle of the light. This rainbow effect signifies a bridge between two worlds and resonates with the inner lights of the meditative traditions to which Body of Light alludes.
About Shuster + Moseley
Shuster + Moseley is the conceptual art studio of Claudia Moseley (b. 1984) and Edward Shuster (b. 1986). The artists create light-mobiles comprised of assemblages of suspended lenses, and sculptural installations of abstracted screens and deconstructed prismic geometries, using glass interfaces to mediate light. Reappropriating the media of technological apparatus—both in response to the exposure of consciousness to informational light and to create openings towards spectrality—the work attempts an alchemy of light, tuning the ambience and tonality of mind in relation to the surrounding environment.
Central to the practice is an approach to a language of light, exposure and spectrality, through which the artists synthesize their engagement with the meditative traditions and related cosmologies; an esoteric approach towards space and place, which employs a diagrammatic poetics; and a critical engagement with technoscience. Considering the horizon of the interface as the medium through which to reflect on the nature of consciousness, embodiment and technological mediation, the artists collaborate with world-renowned scientists working in neuroscience, cosmology and imaging technologies, as well as architects, engineers and technicians.