Bàrbara Moura

Episode 11Bàrbara Moura
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Fractured self

Imagine yourself as a mosaic—each shard a memory, each fragment a story. Identity is fragmented, nonlinear, imperfect. Through collage, artists reassemble past and present into visual diaries, embracing the messiness of memory to reveal a self that is ever-evolving, resilient, and beautifully incomplete.

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Bàrbara Moura

In her deeply introspective practice, Barbara Moura redefines self-portraiture as a form of quiet resistance, an act of emotional honesty in an increasingly fragmented world. Her works, shaped by the solitude of global lockdowns, offer dreamlike windows into internal landscapes where identity, memory, and vulnerability converge. This editorial episode explores Moura’s singular ability to transform personal reckoning into universal reflection, inviting us to pause, sit with ambiguity, and rediscover the power of looking inward.

 

Explore Barbara Moura's artistic practice and her unique approach to self-portraiture. Her work explores intimate, internal worlds, focusing on emotions, identity, and profound solitude, often against dreamlike backdrops. Moura's art, particularly influenced by global lockdowns, conveys raw emotional honesty, acting as a form of resistance that transforms personal experiences into universal reflections on the human condition.

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Barbara Moura
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Barbara Moura
B.1989, Portuguese

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. ...

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