Exhibition - Cerca Series - Joshua Mosley

Cerca Series: Joshua Mosley presents dread (2007), a morality play by the Philadelphia-based artist, in which the worlds of thought, imagination, and the subconscious are conjured and easy conclusions forestalled. Recently on view at the 52nd Venice Biennale to critical acclaim, Joshua Mosley’s mixed-media computer animation and sculptural installation is a philosophical exploration of the human necessity to confront and apprehend nature. In the film, an animated photographic forest is the background against which two characters—modeled on French philosophers Jean Jacques Rousseau and Blaise Pascal—hold a conversation on the relationship between God-given natural order, free will, and the human and animal conditions.