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Josh Lord is an Australian artist whose work moves between the shimmer of imagined futures and the echoes of forgotten pasts. Drawing inspiration from the foundations of cyberpunk—Blade Runner, Neuromancer, Akira—and from the philosophical provocations of Jean Baudrillard, Lord’s practice explores the aesthetic tension of “high tech, low life.” His layered, neon-soaked worlds are alive with overlapping signals and subcultures, where technology saturates every surface, yet human presence remains fragile, fleeting, and uncertain.
Running alongside these futuristic visions is Lord’s ongoing dialogue with the ruins of antiquity and the hubris of empire. Archaeological fragments remind us that civilisations before our own once believed themselves eternal, only to crumble into silence and dust. By setting these echoes of the past against the restless saturation of the present, Lord opens a space where innovation and collapse, shimmer and ruin, are seen not as opposites but as inseparable.
Threaded through his practice is a sense of “future history,” where familiar cultural icons are stripped of their original meanings and reborn as relics. A Coca-Cola sign becomes an object of devotion, fragments of advertising resurface as ritual emblems of neotribalism. In this way, Lord’s work asks us to see the present as it will one day be remembered: fragile, distorted, reimagined, and ultimately reinvented.
His art is a meditation on cycles of permanence and impermanence—an invitation to reflect not only on what we inherit from the past, but also on what future generations may inherit from us.
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