Sand Saga

Shana Moulton

BornNationalityBased In
1976AmericanSanta Barbara
Biography

Shana Moulton works in video, installation, opera and performance. Her practice follows Cynthia's bizarre journeys and experiences, the artist’s agoraphobic and hypochondriac alter-ego, who navigates the contemporary world’s societal and existential anxieties. Named after a senior mobile home park run by her parents in Yosemite, USA, Cynthia searches for meaning amidst New Age therapies, wellness products, spiritualism, self-diagnosis. Mouton’s work is at once humorous, filled with neon-colours, bubblegum, emojis and bubble baths, and tragic. The neurotic desire for spiritual enlightenment that runs through her works is contrasted with meme culture and soap operas. Her installations feature crystals, statuettes and vases, in the background of which run projections depicting Cynthia performing her self-help rituals. Bright, multifaceted and absurd, Moulton’s practice is a saga of self-reflection, the healing of the body and the anxiety of the mind. ...

Selected Artworks
Untitled
Shana MoultonUntitled , 2021
220 x 100 x 100cm
Untitled
Untitled
Untitled for Now Then
Shana MoultonUntitled for Now Then, 2020
124.5 x 86.5 x 73.7cm
Gallery Representation
Biennals
La Biennale de Lyon2020 - Lyon
La Biennale de Lyon2019 - Lyon
Athens Biennale2018 - Athens
Performa2013 - New York City
Performa2009 - New York City
Athens Biennale2004 - Athens
La Biennale de Lyon2004 - Lyon
La Biennale de Lyon2003 - Lyon
Athens Biennale2003 - Athens
Performa2003 - New York City
La Biennale de Lyon1999 - Lyon