The Firestation

 

Jonathan Moss is a painter and video artist, based in the South of France.  He studies the details that usually pass us by: uneven, weathered stone textures, cracks in rocks and dry earth, moving grass and trees, drips revealing the passage of time; the simplicity and elegance of nature.

His current work is based on video-walks through ruins and across scrub in a former concentration camp at Rivesaltes in the south of France, between the Mediterranean and the mountains on the edge of a motorway.

Refugees have been held here during the dark episodes of the twentieth century: the Spanish Revolution, World War Two when thousands of Jews were sent from here to Auschwitz, the Algerian War of Independence, and recently, Eastern Europeans without visas seeking a better life.

Recently Jonathan has worked in collaboration with composers Blaise Merino and Lois Laplace to create the haunting and hypnotic pieces RQV4 and RS12.

www.jonathan-moss.com

Jonathan Moss on Axis web