Shana Moulton

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.