Melisinka

“All of my work at its bedrock is about gender, violence, power and desire, but it’s kind of filtered through a whole lot of populist artforms that I’ve always loved: vaudeville, burlesque, silent movies, music hall.”

Moira Finucane credits a Catholic upbringing for her fascination with the macabre. “The lives of the saints are so much about pain and suffering, redemption and hope and glory,” she laughs wickedly. “Being a very imaginative child, I guess I was always really fascinated by the intense morality of religion. The guilt and the blood, they’re very strong images.”

“No one wants to go out to a theatre and pay money to be lectured to. What they really want to do is see a new possibility. Someone like me opening up a door in their mind or imagination that they never even knew existed. I believe that’s what we as humans want. We are infinitely curious. And through human history curiosity is something that is always there and our capacity to be curious is limitless.”