I WANT TO BELIEVE
In Buffalo, we believe:
that we are permanently on the cusp of a renaissance; that our rust belt city can overcome decades of population decline to boom once again; that our dreaded and derided climate will magically become a haven in the future; that the Bills will finally win the Super Bowl.
Buffalonians are well rehearsed in acting out the desperate optimism born of necessity, and the cheerful pessimism born of habit.
I WANT TO BELIEVE is a series of three solo exhibitions by artists Shana Moulton, Jenine Marsh, and Huidi Xiang. The series will include exchanges between the artists, BICA School, and the local community!
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Shana Moulton
OCTOBER, 2024
Shana Moulton is a multimedia and performance artist based in Santa Barbara, CA. Through Moulton’s long running video series, Whispering Pines, and its upbeat but spiritually thirsty protagonist, Cynthia, the artist addresses the promises, deceptions, and failures of the wellness industry with its attendant woo woo mysticism, neoliberal insistence on subjective self-care, and snake oil ethical offerings. This April, Shana Moulton opened an exhibition at The Modern Museum of Art (MoMA) in New York City.
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Jenine Marsh
JANUARY, 2025
Jenine Marsh is a Canadian sculptor based in Toronto, ON. Marsh’s recent sculptural work makes use of public fountains as an architecture for communal wish-casting and utopian daydreaming. Through the mutilating forces of sculptural practice, the illicit alteration of coins might also be the production of micro-agencies.
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Huidi Xiang
APRIL, 2025
Huidi Xiang is a sculptor from Chengdu, China currently based in Brooklyn, NY. Xiang’s recent work derives from her experience playing the video game Animal Crossing: New Horizons. In Xiang’s work, objects that at first appear as playful, kitschy agglomerations of pop cultural forms are revealed to be physical records of the artist’s failure to escape into fantasy, of the sheer inescapability of a reality in crisis.
