David Moy

David Moy

My work stems from my discomfort with the current age of burnout, image overload, and the resultant disorientation and fatigue within the mental health landscape. Through text and printed media I question the compounding nature of images, stacking and layering them until their totality is nothing, or everything. By appropriating images, videos, and phrases that seek our attention, I revise their methods of control. I utilize current digital printing processes to actualize the work; by use of the same technology, I am reverting their powers of reproduction to suit my needs of negation. Through the processes of obfuscation and erasure, I leave behind a document that requires meditation and a prolonged viewing. This brings back what the internet has taken away, “the present moment.”. In the age of media dominance, the attention industry, alternative facts, and individualization, I question what we become submissive to through the echo chambers created by companies trapping their user’s attention for monetary gains. Furthermore, how those consequences have intruded into our offline minds. I continue to negotiate what to believe in now, when facts become obscured from simultaneous truths and how to move forward with the weight of previous after images in contrast to the anxieties of future forecasts. 

Moy received a BFA from Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia and is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College in New York City. Moy has held exhibitions in New York, Philadelphia and France. With a background in collaboration through traditional Fine Art Printmaking and Digital Large Format Printing.

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