Every Cell is a Bell / Every Angle is an Angel
Every Cell is a Bell / Every Angle is an Angel
I am always in search of magic, as a way to escape mundanity. To fulfill this quest, I convoke fantasies and hallucinations. Sometimes, in everyday life, we still manage to perceive way-outs towards reverie.
Shana Moulton interviewed by Lia Rochas Paris, "Shana et les objets parlant", Standard Magazine, December 6, 2011
In the film and sculptural installation Every Angle is an Angel and Every Cell is a Bell, we meet the artist Shana Moulton as her alter ego Cynthia. Cynthia is a fragile woman that yearns for self-improvement. In order to fulfill her need, she starts using alternative remedies and medicines. In both works the viewer enters a world where colours, objects, symbols and goods have control. Through her alter ego, Moulton denounces the need for perfection and improvement that controls our society and mindset, questions alternative health systems for body and mind, and critically addresses New Age spirituality, tv esoterism and the contemporary health craze.
The titles of the work are quotes of personal accounts from Journeys into the Bright World (1978), a book by Marcia Moore who chronicled her mind- and body-altering, therapeutical experiences with the drug ketamine.
Shana Moulton - Every Cell Is a Bell in Kunsthaus Glarus, May 22 - August 21, 2016
Interview on solo exhibition Journeys Out of the Body, June 18 - October 9, 2016, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Florida
Shana Moulton (USA)
°1976, Oakhurst, California