Organized by Bob Nickas, a long-time accomplice in Mosset’s artistic ventures, this exhibition reflects the understated wit and camaraderie they have shared over the years. Their connection dates back to the last century; Mosset fondly recalls a gathering at a space called “Art for Social Change,” though the details remain delightfully hazy. Over the years, Nickas has included Mosset's work in many of his group shows and written extensively about his practice, cultivating a relationship defined by mutual understanding, irreverence, and a shared appreciation for the absurd.One such moment of serendipity resulted in Bob’s Kitchen, a painting inspired by Nickas’s half-hearted attempt to repaint his own kitchen. The work finds humour in the mundane - a beige top, white bottom, and no deeper meaning than the paint on the canvas.

The works on display in On the Lost Highway, much like Mosset himself, defy straightforward interpretation. At first glance, they appear as monochromes, yet their chameleon-like surfaces shift and shimmer, subtly transforming with changes in light and viewer movement. The pearl-based paint creates a visual experience that defies easy categorisation: what “appears cocoa brown in the morning may take on a bluish/purple coloration late in the afternoon. An emerald green painting before us in the moment, shifts to hazy magenta as we pass by,” notes Nickas, highlighting the influence of surrounding light and viewing angle. This dynamic quality plays with perception, making the act of looking an ongoing process of discovery rather than a definitive conclusion.

In their resistance to settling into a fixed identity, the paintings echo Mosset’s own ambivalence toward meaning. They inhabit a space that is neither here nor there, a kind of visual limbo - leading the viewer somewhere undefined. These works are unapologetically what they are, as Mosset himself would insist. And yet, in their quiet refusal to conform, they suggest something deeper: an existential dialogue between the artwork and the viewer. Rather than offering answers, these paintings provoke inquiry.

Together, Mosset and Nickas present a show that wryly undercuts pretension while inviting us to linger in its ephemeral spaces. Whether it’s a kitchen, a canvas, or a lost highway, they remind us that meaning is always fluid, perhaps even optional - “it is what it is,” Mosset might say.