The artwork depicts a stylized female figure in a provocative pose against a dark background. The composition features bold lines, distinct shapes, and a limited color palette of whites, blacks, and shades of pink. The subject appears nude, with the figure's breasts and genitalia partially obscured, while she wears striped stockings and high-heeled shoes. The overall style is reminiscent of early 20th-century modernist or surrealist art, suggesting the artist's intention to challenge conventional representations of the female form and explore themes of sexuality, power, and gender dynamics. ...
Barbara Moura is an artist originally from Lisbon, Portugal. She graduated from the National Film School of Portugal and moved to London where she did her MA Applied Imagination in The Creative Industries at Central Saint Martins. She currently lives in Vienna. Her work alternates between oil painting and digital drawing and usually deals with themes such as feminism, sexuality, political criticism or emotional struggles, often personalized through self-portraits. ...
Founded in 2019 in the 7th arrondissement of Paris in a Haussmann-style setting, SEPTIEME opened its second space in September 2022 in Cotonou, Benin, in a 200m2 warehouse in the center of the city, to offer exhibitions in a new format to audiences in the West African sub-region. It made sense for SEPTIEME to deploy its vision spatially and to help push back the frontiers of contemporary art, as well as to contribute to the construction of new contemporary art strongholds. ...
Docent - Nude with boots after the painting, by Suzanne Valadon
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