Joe Moss
'Not Hollows' at Chemist Gallery
Joe Moss’s solo exhibition Not Hollows opens at Chemist Gallery in London on Thursday 21 May, 6-9pm.
At the center of this new sculptural installation, a group of palm-sized, tethered drones in an indeterminate state of hovering, exist in a suspended moment of encounter between semi-autonomous systems and speculative imaginaries.
We are not accustomed to being so close to drones. To some degree, we might feel like we already understand drones. On the one hand, through operational networks and systems of control, some deliver goods or deliver death, while another understanding grasps them through increasingly speculative fictions and theories alike, even already imagining them as fully conscious entities. Not Hollows uses the gallery to carve out a duration, one of extended suspension, that sits in the unstable space between those two ideas, the uncertain territory where these technologies currently exist. We ascribe something to the drone, something that comes from us, that they may or may not have, and that is very complicated. Over time, that space will only become more complicated.
Exhibition continues: 22 May - 21 June 2026
Opening hours:
Friday to Saturday: 12-6pm
Sunday: 12-4pm
Chemist Gallery
57 Loampit Hill
London, SE13 7SZ
Graphic design: Oliver Long