Rebecca Moss is an artist based in Essex and East London.
Her work explores notions of absurdity and precarity, and takes a variety of forms across sculpture, video, performance, installation, and participatory practice. Through humorous ideas, her work explores existential themes. A sense of movement recurs across the work, that things are in a state of change and flux. She is especially inspired by slapstick performance: for its emotional expression of feelings of instability, its lowbrow humorous associations, its sense of reciprocity between body and surroundings, and for its potential to challenge power.
In an ongoing series of videos, she stages absurd interventions in the landscape, which she performs to the camera. These works emphasise site-responsive interactions between the human gesture, elemental forces, architecture and the natural world. She sets up scenarios where she relinquishes a degree of control, and the outcome is often surprising.
Her participatory work uses humour as a point of connection, amplifying the perspectives of people from lower socioeconomic backgrounds and marginalised areas, who may not ordinarily experience artistic activity.