Consuming as a path to perfect health and inner peace: with her 10-part video series Whispering Pines, Shana Moulton follows her alter-ego Cynthia on her navigation through the modern world. Moulton shows the surreal in 21st century life, which takes place between an infinite number of consumer goods. The videos focus primarily on the domestic environment. Moulton focuses on the enigmatic and the monstrous in objects that we all encounter every day and yet to which we pay little attention. Moulton's latest work is an extension of her Whispering Pines series (2002-2010): Meta/Physical Therapy can be seen from February 17 in the exhibition of the same name at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Moulton transforms the Kravis Studio into an expression of Cynthia's inner life. Moulton complements the eight-channel video work with live performances about ageing and health and illness in middle age. The exhibition runs until April 21.
Shana Moulton (*1976) comes from California and currently lives in Brooklyn, New York City. The performance and video artist studied at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Madison, Maine, and at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, among others. In 2013, she received the Creative Capital Grant, an award from a non-profit organization that supports artists in the USA. Since then, she has exhibited in New York, London, Paris, Berlin, Naples and Milan, among others. Other video works include MindPlace ThoughtStream (2014), Feed the Soul (2016) and Whispering Pines ∞ (2018).
