The artwork features a striking female figure set against a dark background. The colors used are bold and contrasting, with the figure's face rendered in shades of brown and black, accentuated by vibrant pinks and greens in the clothing and accessories. The overall composition emphasizes the subject's strong, confident presence, with the cross and other symbolic elements suggesting a religious or spiritual context. The distinctive, stylized approach to the figure's portrayal evokes an avant-garde, Modernist artistic sensibility, hinting at the artist's intention to challenge traditional modes of representation. ...
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. ...
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