Hombre Florero, 2023

£ 3,700 Mora uses models, usually those she has emotional relationships with, interfering, manipulating and controlling their posture and presentation - in this way, painting becomes an act of control. The subject of her recent degree show works i...

£ 3,700 Mora uses models, usually those she has emotional relationships with, interfering, manipulating and controlling their posture and presentation - in this way, painting becomes an act of control. The subject of her recent degree show works is her partner - by portraying him in performative, playful, and almost condescending poses, she teases out and inverts the traditional power dynamics of men and women, painter and muse. Hombre Florero exposes the subject at his most intimate, and is a play on the stereotype of the ‘flower woman’ - a pejorative Spanish term for a female role with no benefit to the production other than her beauty.