MostCo (Nuclear Samurai)
Video, 2023
About the artwork
"MOSTCO" serves as a post-apocalyptic allegory for consumerism and environmental neglect, where retail wholesalers become the last bastions of sustenance in a world ravaged by resource depletion. It subtly critiques our reliance on mass consumerism and imagines what it would be like to exist in this new world. AI Generated Music by Nuclear Samurai Sound Effects are CC0 from freesound.org
Audio explanation
Listen to Nuclear Samurai discuss this work.
Nuclear Samurai is an artist with a background in commercial photography, and fine art photography.
He has worked for years as a studio photographer and studied a fine art degree majoring in photography. His work often considers topics such as truth in images, identity and persona in the digital era, and musings on absurdities in the way society is structured.
His visual style is often inspired by a photographic, subtle surrealism, that leans heavily on the cinematic language of film to convey narratives and emotions.