Solo Exhibition by Tom Moser

THE CONCEPT & MANIFESTO

Archive of Interventions

The Bureaux for Art & Editions presents a rigorous examination of the human image within the structures of institutional and corporate power. The project operates at the intersection of classical portraiture and tactical physical intervention.

Starting with large-scale photographic portraits of corporate figures, the work systematically destabilizes the representative nature of these images. Through precise overpainting, scarring, and the layering of raw pigments, the work strips away the veneer of identity and professional status. This is not an act of mere destruction, but a method of documentation: a transition from the iconic to the anonymous, from the recognized subject to an autonomous, abstract form.

In the Archive of Interventions, the act of obscuring becomes a revelation. By erasing the individual features of these figures, the work exposes the tensions inherent in our modern visual landscape and questions the weight we assign to institutional authority. It is a process of de-identification, turning the image of the powerful into a surface of silent, visceral presence.