Joshua Mosley Film Program at Schaulager Museum, June 26th and 29th, Basel/Münchenstein Switzerland
The “Artist’s Choice” film series presents videos and films which have been personally selected by the artist. The screenings include films and video animations by Peggy Ahwesh, Bernadette Corporation, Samuel Beckett, Gregg Bordowitz, Ben Coonley, Petra Cortright, Josh Kline, Joshua Mosley, Chris Marker, Dani Leventhal, Pier Paolo Pasolini, Yvonne Rainer, Stuart Sherman and Cauleen Smith.
JOSHUA MOSLEY
Joshua Mosley (*1974, lives and works in Philadelphia) puts ever-changing scenes in motion with his unique, vividly poetic mixed-media video animations. His artistically handcrafted figures in clay and gypsum are brought to life with stop-motion recording techniques and combined with a backdrop of photographs and charcoal and pen-and-ink drawings. Accompanied by his own compositions and dialogues, his works concentrate on fundamental philosophical themes such as love or our relationship to nature, or he evokes imagined encounters between famous personages from various historical periods. Mosley is a professor at the University of Pennsylvania and a contributor to this year’s Whitney Biennal in New York.