Public Preview: Thursday 10 June, 6 - 8pm
‘The welfare state is failing. An acute risk of sounding neoliberal when making such statements is an irony not lost. Social securities systemic failings are the concern. Perspectives of a society hellbent on exploiting disabled people as a cost cutting exercise are of no interest.
Support mechanisms have been fettled away. Populism manipulates tales that portray benefit claimants as scroungers stealing from the pockets of taxpayers. Thus, the system corrodes, crippling any strength it has to provide aid. Insistence that benefits are a bloated expense is in reality an equivocation exposing the skewed rhetoric on the perception of its dependents.
Using the photographs strained relationship to the real, the constructions that make up these assaults and cuts are accessed. The incorporeal structures that society has determined to provide support are revealed to be decrepit.’
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Jack Moyse is a photographer and artist based in Swansea, South Wales. His practice focuses on societal issues including the demonisation of migrants, ableism and mental health. He has been invited to speak at a range of colleges, universities, photo festivals and symposia, including the University of South Wales, University of Wales Trinity Saint David (Swansea), Carmarthen School of Art, and the Trauma Porn Symposium in Bristol, supported by the Bristol Photography Research Group. He has also exhibited and contributed to the Healing Through Photography conference at Belfast Exposed.