I paint what photographs can no longer hold
Some things refuse to disappear. I work with those.
Original painting. One of one.
The work
2026
acrylic and oil on canvas on foam board
35 × 47 in (89 × 120 cm)
30 × 24 in (76 × 61 cm)
mixed media on canvas on wood board
2025
2026
acrylic and oil on canvas mounted on foam board
16 × 21 in (40 × 53 cm)
2026
acrylic and oil on canvas mounted on foam board
16 × 21 in (41 × 53 cm)
Venera Mor (b. 1990 in Essentuki, Russia) is a New York–based artist whose work explores the instability of memory through painting and photography.
She begins with photographs she captures herself — attempts to hold a moment still. These images are transferred onto canvas, then interrupted: erased in parts, rewritten in others, until they lose their fixed form.
What remains is not the original image, but a trace — something between record and reconstruction.
Her paintings exist in the space between what is remembered and what is no longer fully accessible, where memory is continuously reshaped in the act of seeing.
They hold both presence and disappearance at once.
Private commissions
Created from your photographs and what they carry