Shana Moulton is a New York based media artist who explores contemporary anxieties through her filmic alter ego, Cynthia.
Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Cynthia's interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew.
As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.
[4] Cynthia, Moulton's intimately autobiographical, surreal, video alter-ego, interacts with appropriated new-age marginalia, prescription drugs, and beauty products in scenes that address the difficulties of self-discovery and fulfillment in a modern, consumerism-driven society.
[11] The video focuses on Cynthia, Moulton’s kitschy alter-ego, who uses an appropriated New Age device to access the inside of her own mind.